Politics · Italy · 7 hrs ago
Ferrara plans task force to address youth disorder
Ferrara Mayor Alan Fabbri announced a new task force called the Anti-Maranza Unit.
The city in northern Italy says it will work on prevention, monitoring and enforcement.
The team is expected to include local police, lawyers, psychologists, social workers and security experts.
Fabbri linked the plan to disorder during protests in Milan and Bologna and said families and shopkeepers were worried about safety.
He described the unit as a first experiment of its kind in Italy, and said it should start work in the coming weeks.
Opposition politician Fabio Anselmo criticised the plan as propaganda and a waste of public money, arguing that its language stigmatizes young people.
He said young people need opportunities, jobs and places to build community, rather than only a task force.
Ferrara Mayor Alan Fabbri announced a municipal task force called the Nucleo Anti Maranza to address youth disorder.
The unit is planned within the local police and is intended to focus on prevention, monitoring and enforcement.
The municipality says it will involve lawyers, psychologists, social workers, police officers and security experts.
The city has not specified exactly what the task force will do, and it has not confirmed reports that former deputy mayor Nicola Lodi will lead it.
Opposition politician Fabio Anselmo called the initiative propaganda and criticized its terminology, while League leader Matteo Salvini praised it.
- Who
- Ferrara Mayor Alan Fabbri announced the task force. It is to involve municipal police and other professionals.
- What
- Ferrara plans a task force called the Nucleo Anti Maranza to address youth disorder through prevention, monitoring and enforcement.
- When
- Announced on October 22, 2026. It is expected to become active in the coming weeks.
- Where
- Ferrara, Italy.
- Why
- Fabbri said it is intended to address the phenomenon and prevent serious incidents in the city.
Alan Fabbri and Matteo Salvini
Fabio Anselmo and the city opposition
Purpose
Alan Fabbri and Matteo Salvini
Fabbri says the task force will address youth disorder through prevention, monitoring and enforcement. Salvini called it a good initiative that should be copied in other cities.
Fabio Anselmo and the city opposition
Anselmo calls the plan propaganda and says young people’s problems require other responses, including opportunities and spaces for community.
Language and effects
Alan Fabbri and Matteo Salvini
Fabbri says he will act to protect public safety.
Fabio Anselmo and the city opposition
Anselmo says the task force’s name is stigmatizing and racist, and argues that it could generate hatred.
Mayor Alan Fabbri announced the Nucleo Anti Maranza task force.
Fabio Anselmo criticized the initiative, while Matteo Salvini praised it.
The task force is expected to become active.
- Location
- Ferrara, Italy
- Mayor
- Alan Fabbri
- Task force name
- Nucleo Anti Maranza, or NAM
- Planned functions
- Prevention, monitoring and enforcement
- Planned participants
- Lawyers, psychologists, social workers, local police and security experts
- Expected start
- Coming weeks
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What people are saying
Ferrara responds, with action, to requests for help and support from many parents, families and shopkeepers, frightened by the growing sense of insecurity.
Nam, Anti Maranza Unit. A good initiative by the League mayor in Ferrara. It should be repeated in other cities, throughout Italy. Well done, Alan!
This city is not a powder keg, and those who govern it are doing everything to light the fuse.
Approaching the issue this way, and with this ghettoizing, stigmatizing and, I would say, racist terminology, is a sign of these dark times.