Rome, October 22 (askanews) – "In some areas, a few individuals continue to block roads and don't stop there. They threaten those who want to work, slash the tires of their colleagues' trucks. This isn't protest, this is intimidation, and we won't tolerate intimidation." This is what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a video message on social media after the Cabinet approved the decree to support road haulage and agriculture.
"And I'm not the only one saying this. Those calling for these roadblocks to be removed," he added, "are truck drivers themselves, shopkeepers, farmers, mayors, and institutions of all political stripes. Because, as always, it's not the powerful who pay, it's ordinary people: the truck driver who has to bring home the paycheck, the company that can't deliver, the family who finds themselves paying more." "We will use all the tools the law offers us, including—according to Meloni—the provisions of the security decree that have made roadblocks a crime.
This government fully respects those who want to demonstrate, listens to those who ask for help, and respects the rules. However, we also have a duty to enforce the laws of the state and not allow ourselves to be blackmailed by those who use violence as a tool of pressure. Those who want to work must be able to do so, and the state must guarantee it." "An agreement with the road haulage associations, resources already paid, and new measures for farmers and fishermen approved today in the Council of Ministers," Meloni explained.
“What was signed is not promises, but resources,” the Prime Minister added in the video.
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