Radicals protest the repressive turn of the Italian governement

New York - Brussels, February 6 - "The reactionary and prohibitionist line the current Italian government has taken on drugs denies the historic result of the 1993 Radical referendum thanks to which, for the first time, there was a liberal reform of the drug laws," said Marco Perduca, Secretary of the IAL and Representative of the TRP to the United Nations. For Marco Cappato, Radical Member of the European Parliament and Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist Action, if the law proposed by Fini (Alleanza Nazionale) - which creates mandatory sentences for possession over a certain quantity - is approved by the Parliament, it will, at best, increase the clientele of of anti-drug professionals, and, at worst, overcrowd prisons. "It seems the government and Alleanza nazionale want to go down a failed road that in recent years has already produced more drugs, more deaths, more mafia, and more AIDS": said Daniele Capezzone.