"ICE does not and will never be able to carry out operational police activities on our national territory."

In a briefing to the Chamber of Deputies, Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi attempted to clarify the issue of the presence of American ICE agents during the upcoming Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, a claim that has been repeatedly denied and finally confirmed.

"Security and public order," the minister said, "are ensured exclusively by our police forces. And this principle is not contradicted by the fruitful investigative collaborations that are usually activated at the international level in such circumstances."

"During the Milan-Cortina Games, the members of this agency will be engaged solely in analysis and information exchange with the Italian authorities," he added. "The presence of personnel linked to the ICE Agency is certainly not a sudden and unilateral initiative to undermine our national sovereignty , as some have portrayed, but rather compliance with a legally binding international agreement entered into by Italy in full compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and the prerogatives of Parliament ."

" We will not see anything on national territory that resembles what has been seen in the media in the United States ," assures the Interior Minister. "The concerns that have inspired the controversy of the last few days are therefore completely unfounded, and this information allows me to definitively dispel them."

(Unioneonline/D)

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