Overview

• In 2012, Ferri was definitively convicted of false statements and calumny in connection with the G8 Genoa Diaz school raid and received a 3-year, 8-month prison sentence along with a five-year ban from public office.
• The open letter opposing his nomination was signed by nearly 100 Monza civil society figures, including former parliamentarians, lawyers and academics.
• During the July 2001 Diaz raid, police detained 93 activists and hospitalized 63, actions later condemned as one of the darkest pages in Italian state history.
• Senator Ilaria Cucchi of Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra has initiated a parliamentary inquiry into the appointment process for Monza’s police chief.
• Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has not responded to the appeal or inquiry as Ferri’s June 1 start date for the Monza post nears.