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Decrees on Safety, the criminalization of rights: a report denounces the crackdown on ecological dissent.
“Right is not crime.” The title of the report produced by the Network in Defense of and by the Observatory for Repression, published in May 2026 within the P.E.A.C.E. project co-financed by CLIDEF and Civitates, is already a thesis and clear: defending the environment and territories is a constitutional right, and those who exercise it today are treated as criminals. The second edition of the report measures three years of “shock legislation” against ecological dissent and returns a picture in which the criminalization of conflict has become a declared government program.
Law 22 January 2024 n. 6, the so-called Sangiuliano law, inaugurated the cycle. For those who damage or deteriorate cultural assets, a fine of €20,000 to €60,000 is introduced, punishable directly by the prefect. On February 13, 2024, two weeks after the entry into force, an activist from Ultima Generazione who had glued photographs of the Campi Bisenzio flood onto the frame of the Venus at the Uffizi was sent a fine of €20,000.
Fifteen months later arrives Law Decree No. 48 of April 11, 2025, converted into Law No. 80 of June 9, 2025: 14 new crimes, 9 aggravating factors. Article 14 transforms the blockade of roads with one’s body from an administrative offense into a criminal offense, up to one month of imprisonment for the individual, from six months to two years if more than one person is gathered. Article 19 aggravates the penalty for resisting public officials “in order to prevent the realization of infrastructure intended to supply energy, transportation services, and telecommunications.” Article 26 introduces the crime of riot in a penitentiary institution, including “passive resistance conduct.”
Decreti Sicurezza (Security Decrees), the architecture of control. On the ground, repression operates on three parallel tracks. The first is criminal: public prosecutors contest the interruption of a public service (art. 340 c.p.), defacing, violation of a passage order, which the Caivano decree of September 2023 has multiplied by six in the minimum, bringing it from one to six months. The second is administrative: mandatory passage orders, urban bans, special surveillance, and sanctions issued by the Carabinieri based on presumed social danger.
Ultima Generazione has received 399 passage orders since 2021, and Extinction Rebellion records dozens being issued in Rome, Bologna, Brescia, Venice, and Padua. The third is patrimonial: criminal fines up to €10,000 for damage in public squares, and the million-euro compensation claims in the so-called “Sovrano” No Tav process, in which the government took part as a civil party, requesting the costs of police overtime.
A authoritarian turn under international scrutiny. On December 16, 2024, the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty wrote to Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa requesting that he not approve the text unless substantially modified. La Russa, in turn, dismissed the letter as “unacceptable interference.” Six days before, on December 14, 100,000 people with 200 organizations passed through Rome against the measure. The Council of Europe’s observations add to those of UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor and those of UN Special Rapporteur for the Environment Michel Forst, who in its November 2025 guidelines explicitly recommended that Italy refrain from criminalizing peaceful environmental protests. The government remained deaf to it.
On March 22 and 23, 2026, the “no” to the referendum on career separation was passed with 53.75% against 46.25%: a vote that closes the chapter on the restrictive laws. However, the apparatus that that chapter built remains intact. A judiciary that continues to acquit for minor offenses and disapplies passage orders without justification is mitigating the trend case by case, sentence by sentence. Someone should raise the political brake.
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