Representatives of the United Jewish Communities today hailed a Constitutional High Court ruling that public religious gatherings may be held without prior notice to the police.
The court, Italy’s highest tribunal, ruled unconstitutional an article of the Public Security Law providing that police must receive three days notice of any non-Catholic religious assembly outside a recognized house of worship and in a place accessible to the general public. The law was aimed primarily at Italy’s tiny Protestant minority.
The Jewish spokesmen called the ruling an important step in the history of Italian democracy.
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