During a recent session of the Italian Council of Ministers, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano managed to impose his position on a very delicate issue: the list of crimes to be decriminalized in the context of the on-going criminal and penitentiary reform. Two of the most sensitive types of offense - such as marijuana cultivation and "illegal" immigration (as defined by the infamous Bossi-Fini law) - have indeed been excluded from the catalog of crimes to be transformed in administrative violations. In other words, yet another opportunity of justice reform has now been lost.
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Italy Won't Decriminalize 'Illegal' Immigration or Marijuana Cultivation
During a recent session of the Italian Council of Ministers, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano managed to impose his position on a very delicate issue: the list of crimes to be decriminalized in the context of the...
by Associazione Antigone
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