This time, football has set the course: the institute of deferred arrest represented a decisive turning point in the fight against violence during sporting events and has now also been extended to other areas. Deferred arrest was introduced with the legislative decree of 24 February 2003, n.28, and converted into law in April of the same year. It was born from the need to act effectively in some contexts, curves for example, where the immediate intervention of the police was complex and in some cases even risky. In fact, this tool allows those responsible for violent acts to be arrested up to 48 hours after the crime, thanks to the use of video evidence, offering a concrete response to the escalation of violence in stadiums (and now violence, as we have seen, has also moved outside the stadiums).
Francesco Tagliente remembers it now, who at the time was president of the National Observatory on sporting events and played a key role in the approval of this provision. “Deferred flagrant arrest – explains Prefect Tagliente – is now an integral part of public safety measures, significantly contributing to reducing violence in stadiums and demonstrating the value of cooperation between institutions”. It wasn’t easy to get there then: there was opposition and doubts. But a way had to be found to make the stadiums safer (they were hell back then…) and the way was found.
Now the deferred flagrancy has also been extended in cases of public safety, red code, migrants (violence in CPRs) and healthcare (too many episodes of attacks on healthcare personnel). For once a good example came from the world of sport. But it’s not enough. After the sensational events in Milan there was a summit between ministers Piantedosi and Abodi. Perhaps there is no need for new laws, but to strictly apply those that exist and guarantee the certainty of the punishment: sometimes, in the past, a part of the judiciary has considered stadium crimes to be minor crimes. But this is not the case, also due to their social impact. The League of A suggests facial recognition (see Spy Calcio of 3 October), president Gravina himself is in favor of the technology but a common effort is needed. The Observatory has had an important task for a long period with managers such as Tagliente himself, Massucci (current police commissioner of Rome and great expert on stadium dynamics), Ferlizzi, Sgalla, Daniela Stradiotto. Now the Observatory seems to have some momentum, and not the fault of those who direct it. It is up to Piantedosi, Abodi and the sometimes distracted world of football to study more effective forms of contrast, inside and outside the stadiums.
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