Marco Minniti

Marco Minniti (born Domenico Minniti Italian pronunciation: [mar.koː min'niːti]; 6 June 1956) is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party, who serves in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior since 12 December 2016.

A close collaborator of Massimo D'Alema, Minniti mature in Calabria most of his political education. In 1986 he served on the Commission for Labour's issues of the Italian Communist Party. In 1986 he became secretary of the PCI provincial federation of Reggio Calabria.

In 1992 he became regional secretary of the Calabrian Democratic Party of the Left, a position he left in 1994 when he was appointed in the national leadership of the party. With the foundation of the Democrats of the Left, in February 1998, he was appointed secretary to the party's organization.

Minniti was candidated in the 1996 general election for The Olive Tree coalition of Romano Prodi, in Calabria, but he was not elected.

From 1998 to 2001 he hold the offices of Undersecretary in the cabinets of Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato

In 2001 general election Minniti was elected for the first time to the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

In the 2006 general election he was re-elected in Calabria in the Chamber of Deputies and after The Union victory, Minniti was appointed Deputy Minister of the Interior in the Prodi II Cabinet.

After the primary election of 14 October 2007 he was elected regional secretary of the Democratic Party in Calabria, an office who held until 2009. In the general election of 2008 he was elected for a third term in his constituency.

From 2007 to 2013, Minniti was a member of the National Direction of the PD, under the leaderships of Walter Veltroni, Dario Franceschini and Pier Luigi Bersani.

In 2013 general election Minniti was elected in the Senate of the Republic for the first time?

On 17 May 2013 he was appointed Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office in Letta Cabinet with responsibility for intelligence services. Minniti hold this office also in the government of Matteo Renzi.

Minister of the Interior

On 12 December 2016, Minniti was appointed new Minister of the Interior in the government of Paolo Gentiloni.

On 23 December 2016, Anis Amri, the perpetrator of the Berlin attack on 19 December, was killed in a shootout with police in front of the Sesto San Giovanni railway station, near Milan, Italy. The suspect had just arrived by train from Chambéry, France (via Turin). During a routine patrol, two police officers asked to search his backpack after he said he did not have any identity documents. Amri then pulled out a gun and shot one of the officers in the shoulder. The other officer responded by shooting Amri. Minniti stated that a policeman had been hospitalized with a shoulder injury.