Alfano backs Renzi in approach to terror

(ANSA) - Venice, November 30 - Nowhere is at "zero risk" of a terrorist attack, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Monday, adding that special protective measures would be introduced in Venice. "Places at zero risk do not exist, either in Italy or in other parts of the world, as the dramatic chronology of terror over the last 15 years has unfortunately shown," Alfano said. "Venice is a symbolic place and we are equipping ourselves to protect it as well as possible," the minister continued. "We will protect Venice like the rest of the country and we will do it in the lagoon city with a specific plan that we will present to Mayor (Luigi) Brugnaro, because Venice is a special city and must therefore have special protection," Alfano said. The interior ministry then called on European Union member states to abandon their "national jealousies" and cooperate more in the fight against terrorism.
    Italy has proposed the adoption at the European level of the 'Italian model' under which "anti-terrorism forces work together very well within a committee for strategic analysis against terrorism", Alfano said.
    The minister and leader of the small centrist New Centre Right (NCD) party said he espoused the "rational" and "responsible" line taken by Premier Matteo Renzi following the November 13 attacks in Paris, "saying no to another Libya".
    "If we are to take part, to cooperate in a different way in Syria too, which is something that we do not rule out, we would certainly like to know the plan for afterwards," Alfano said.