Rome, 14 October 2021 – A black friday. Tomorrow takes thegreen pass obligation for workers (who how the controls will work). And, after the demonstration in Rome, which has turned into a real urban guerrilla, the Interior Ministry triggers the alert: “It cannot be ruled out” that tomorrow will be “the pretext for a further tightening of the tone” of the protest, with “actions” towards “objectives exposed to risk” and with “possible episodes of opposition between groups adhering to opposite extremisms“This is what we read in a circular from the Department of Public Security, signed by the Chief of Police Lamberto Giannini.
In the next few hours, there could be initiatives against the green certificate in front of “company entrances“and” at airports, ports, road junctions, motorways and railways, aimed at creating inconvenience with possible hindrance to the regularity of services and production activities “, writes the Department of Public Security. And therefore prefects and quaestors are asked,” within a framework of necessary rigor “, to put in place devices to guarantee all events “in compliance with the rules and regulations, so as to avoid disturbances and ensure the maintenance of public order.” The circular also refers to the previous note sent to the Quaestors, immediately after the clashes that took place on Saturday in Rome , with which he was asked to raise the “surveillance and security measures“to all sensitive sites and targets, to” guarantee adequate preventive protection but also to effectively combat any illegal conduct “.
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In short, tomorrow’s will be the first testing ground for the new rules of engagement of the public order services, decided yesterday by the National Order and Security Committee after the mistakes last Saturday in Rome. To raise the barricades against the pass are above all the port of Trieste, where 40% of the 950 employees are not vaccinated, while ‘Trasportiunit’ announces that “about 80 thousand truck drivers and other vehicles distributed over 98,000 companies will be missing.”
Trieste, what happens if the airport stops
But the critical issues are also looming on the front of public transport (here the rules: the clarifications of the Ministry), where among the employees the percentage of unvaccinated goes from 10% to 20%. In Milan, in addition to the 272 workers in the sector who declared their unwillingness to comply with the obligation to submit the green certificate, the local public transport company recorded a 15% increase in sick personnel. Same type of figures, including holidays, of 10-12% in Rome: in the capital, Atac will monitor the peaks of absenteeism to prevent any problems in the service. In Verona and Genoa, on the other hand, 10% of absences are expected. Faced with the Green pass test, many employees therefore chose the ‘passive protest’: deserting due to health problems.
Ports alarm, transport and food in the balance
The risk of a false departure, in addition to desertions, is also aggravated by demonstrations in several cities: the most important is a Roma, where the location of the ‘No Pass’ sit-in, already moved twice by the Police Headquarters, is scheduled for Circus Maximus, and with a deployment of 1000 agents.
In control room met today and chaired by the premier Mario Draghi the Green pass was not discussed, but on the subject the line of Palazzo Chigi seems ironclad: although it is considered to strengthen aid to companies that pay tests to employees, no postponement of the entry into force of the certificate obligation is foreseen green. We leave tomorrow.
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