Overview
- The cabinet approved a two‑part package: a 33‑article decree that takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette and a 29‑article bill that will proceed through Parliament.
- The decree authorizes preventive detention of at‑risk individuals for up to 12 hours around demonstrations, with immediate notice to prosecutors who can order release if conditions are not met.
- Prosecutors will no longer automatically register as suspects those who appear to have acted under legal justification, recording a preliminary separate annotation instead; this applies to police and civilians.
- The text tightens controls on edged weapons by banning sales to minors including online, requiring electronic sales logs, and criminalizing the carrying of certain concealed blades, while stabilizing ‘red zones’ and restricting assembly rights for specified convicts with breach penalties of 4 months to 1 year.
- The Quirinale’s scrutiny prompted changes and the dropping of a protester deposit plan; the decree must be converted within 60 days, and ministers say a separate immigration bill—sometimes described as a naval interdiction—will be presented next week but is not part of this decree.