(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 6 - Premier Giuseppe Conte's cabinet has
approved a new package that overhauls former interior minister
and League leader Matteo Salvini's controversial
migrant-and-security decrees.
Among other things, the Salvini-drafted legislation featured
million-euro fines for NGO migrant-rescue ships defying entry
bans
The new decree beings those fines down to a maximum of 50,000
euros. and boosts the migrant-reception system, introducing a
special protection regime for refugees.
It reduces the maximum period for the processing of citizenship
applications from 48 to 36 months too.
The package also introduces the possibility of people being
banned from certain areas if they are involved in violence in
night-life zones after the case of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a
21-year-old who was beaten to death at Colleferro, near Rome,
last month.
"These lot spent their time dismantling things, rather than
constructing them," Salvini said.
"From what I've read, I'd call it the 'illegal immigrants'
decree.
"We are going back to the free-for-all of illegal immigration,
permits gifted to anyone walking down the streets and
thousand-strong migrant landings". (ANSA).
Cabinet approves new security decree
Package overhauls controversial Salvini-drafted legislation