The Italian regime is getting nervous. One of Berlusconi's ministers tries to put the blame for what happened in Genoa on the former government and doing so defines the next step towards complete control by the fascists of the state's institutions. We didn't have the impression the people coordinating the police violence last saturday were lefties, really. Gleichschaltung, anyone?

A translation of a La Repubblica report follows.
Source:  http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimora/rep_nazionale_96411.htm

"The top people of the security forces have been chosen by the [former] center-left [government]. That's why I think they should be replaced, because otherwise we get an unclear situation," said Comunications minister Maurizio Gasparri, speaking at Catanzaro. "I hope," he added, "there will come to be a ruling class [sic], in the bureaucracy and in the state administration, chosen by the present government. That way we will be able to bear the responsibility that we cannot assume completely today, because we are not sure the people chosen by the former government are capable or not. Maybe some of them are, and deserve to stay on, and others maybe not."