Boss originally from Sant’Eufemia di Aspromonte at 41 bis can hear music, rejected the appeal of the Ministry

The 41 bis boss can buy a CD player and listen to the music he prefers. The Court of Cassation has given reason to a man held in a penitentiary institute of the North-West in the ‘hard prison’ regime, confirming a decision of the Turin surveillance court and declaring “inadmissible” the appeal filed by the Ministry of Justice. The case concerns Domenico Laurendi, 56, originally from Sant’Eufemia di Aspromonte, known with the nickname of ‘Rocchellina’, which in 2024 was sentenced on appeal to 19 years of imprisonment in the context of the ‘Ndrangheta process originating from the Eyphemos operation of the DDA of Reggio Calabria (directed at the time by the magistrate Giovanni Bombardieri). The prisoner had asked to buy a device, with the relative headphones, to listen to CDs (music had joined study and work reasons). The Court observed that if the reader is adequately ‘plunged’, and if the discs are regularly branded and sealed at the time of sale, the operation – of which the maintenance company must be occupied – is feasible as there are no risks of external manipulation. As a further precaution, the subalpine judges had also ordered constant checks on the device during delivery times. A similar affair, in a Piedmontese prison, but with another detained at 41 bis, had occurred in 2022.