Premier Paolo Gentiloni said
Monday that the intelligence services were working effectively
to counter the threat of terrorism, adding that it was not
necessary to sacrifice freedom to have security.
"You don't respond to the threat by closing up, but by
accepting the challenge," Gentiloni said as he presented the
annual intelligence report.
"More security does not mean less freedom... Italian citizens
can be certain, not about the lack of threats because that would
be an illusion, but about the high quality of the work to combat
them".
He added that the report highlighted the capacity of the
intelligence services to "discover, prevent and combat various
types of challenges and threats, including some that are
relatively new for us. This is a cause for satisfaction".
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