Guerrilla warfare in Milan. Marco Rizzo and the pedagogical wisdom of a “old” communist

GUERRILLA IN MILAN. MARCO RIZZO AND THE PEDAGOGICAL WISDOM OF A “VECCHIO” COMMUNIST

The police forces, in front of those who destroy, loots and throws stones, they must be able to intervene with all the necessary firmness, until they inflate the hooligans like bagpipes playing Christmas tunes and make them see Baby Jesus descending from the stars, without the fear of ending up on trial for doing their duty, even with truncheon blows.

— The Briefs of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos —

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Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October the center of Milan was set on fire by hundreds of boys with their faces covered, mostly minors, summoned up TikTok under the pretext of a demonstration against the cost of living, fought by robbing the Foot Locker of Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the Carrefour of via Torino and the Decathlon of Piazza Castello.

The budget: 271 people accompanied to the police station, 80% minors, the youngest of eleven; injured officers; the faithful leaving the Mass of Archbishop Mario Delpini evacuated from an underground passage of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In front of all this, the most sensible proposal did not come from inclusive television sociologists nor from evolutionary dialogue psychologists, but from an all-round communist: Marco Rizzo, former MP and MEP, for years at the helm of the Communist Party. What does he propose?? A simple and effective rule: Those who smash are stopped and only come out when mum and dad go with their wallets in hand to pay the bail. And he adds that his son will finally get the two slaps he should have received a long time ago, learning that actions have consequences and that consequences have a price that someone must pay.

The underlying problem is the destruction of authority. For decades it has been explained to us that authority is repression, the limit is trauma, "no" is psychological violence. We have thus raised a generation of unionist parents, ready to challenge the teacher's vote, to report the coach who left his son on the bench, to see every reproach as an attack on the child's self-esteem. The overprotective parent is not a loving parent: is an absent parent, who delegated the education of his son to impunity. The result is twelve-year-olds who fear nothing or anyone, because no one ever taught them to fear anything.

About this educational void the subculture of a certain music is grafted trap e drill who sings the robbery, the knife, contempt for the police, easy money and the designer brand as the only sign of value. It's not the only cause, but it's the soundtrack. And it is no coincidence that the shop windows attacked were those selling sneakers and sportswear: what is shown off in the videos is plundered.

Then there is a knot that no one wants to untie: these kids know very well that nothing can happen to them, than the policeman, fermandoli, risks more than them. Be an agent, to stop a minor who breaks a shop window to steal designer clothes, hits him with a rubber truncheon, he will end up in front of a judge, who will often come out convicted. And as long as the policeman is more afraid of the judge than the thug is of the policeman, delinquency will triumph.

Certain subjects, seeing the police from a distance, they should feel a shiver down their spine: our safety is entrusted to them and, if necessary, the use of legitimate force, protective and defensive, of which only the State holds the monopoly. And the police, in front of those who destroy, loots and throws stones, they must be able to intervene with all the necessary firmness, until they inflate the hooligans like bagpipes playing Christmas tunes and make them see Baby Jesus descending from the stars, without the fear of ending up on trial for doing their duty, even with truncheon blows. It is not an apology for violence, but the defense of the authority of the State: it is the request that the State stop leaving its agents alone and guaranteeing, in fact, impunity for offenders.

Strange fate that of us priests: to listen to a serious educational talk, we had to listen to an old and lucid communist, while the parody of the sinister salon bivouacs outside of reality between the super penthouses of Parioli and the villas of Capalbio.

From the island of Patmos, 20 October 2026

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