Rome, 20 April 2022 – Kidnapped and raped by two fellow inmates. It happened in Roman prison of Regina Coeliea to give the news is the Sappe, an autonomous union of the prison police. Those responsible for the violence, according to the trade union organization, would be two inmates of Slavic origin accused of robbery and other offenses.
To put an end to the violence, during which the victim was threatened with a rudimentary knife and kept tied with a rope, the intervention of prison policemen. The detainee was then transported to the hospital, where – according to Sappe – he was found to be seriously injured. “A shameful and gruesome episode certainly favored byeasing of security internal due to dynamic supervision “, says Maurizio Somma, Lazio secretary of Sappe.
“These are the fruits of a reduced surveillance as a result of the crazy dynamic vigilance, the self-management of prisons and the objective numbers of staff shortages of the Regina Coeli Penitentiary Police Department of Rome – relaunches the national head of the union Donato Capece – What has happened is of unprecedented gravity and is the consequence of the nefarious dismantling of prison security policies, which in fact resulted in a dangerous self-management of prisons. The system, for adults and minors, is crumbling every day “.
The union points its finger at what it defines as “wicked measures”: it ranges from the “open prison regime, with inmates out of cells for at least 8 hours a day with sporadic and occasional checks“to the suppression of the sentinels of the Penitentiary Police for surveillance from the prison walls, from the staff shortages of the prison police to the lack of funding for anti-intrusion and anti-climb-over services.” The policy has completely screwed up “, concludes Capece.