This last provision, however, sparked discussions at the top of the Italian state. On a legal level, article 2048 of the Civil Code already provides that parents can be held responsible for damage caused by their minor children, with the possibility, under certain conditions, of demonstrating that they could not prevent the facts.
After the looting in Milan, the Italian government adopted a decree-law toughening sanctions against violence during demonstrations. The Italian Prime Minister presented her new security decree in a video broadcast on social networks, following the Council of Ministers.
To carry out this measure, Giorgia Meloni chose the path of decree-law, thus opting for a faster legislative route after France. The text also provides for the possibility of recovering certain sums owed by the State to families.
This reform targets a concrete situation: when a window is broken, a bus shelter destroyed or a car set on fire by a teenager, the parents of a minor responsible for this damage could now be forced to pay the bill more quickly.
The Italian government thus intends to respond to violence in which many adolescents have participated. The head of government summarized this orientation by affirming that if the person who breaks it is a minor, it is their parents who pay.
Similar parental financial responsibility already exists in French law.