This morning, in the Paola prison, a prisoner with psychiatric problems set the fire inside the cell in which he was. An intense blanket of smoke spread outside, so it was necessary to intervene with the fire extinguishers, using individual protection devices and evacuate the entire isolation department. To report it the Sappe.
“The prisoner who caused the fire did not want to leave the room, so all the consequent rescue activities were complicated by the unwelling attitude of the same. Thanks to the professionalism and sense of responsibility of all the staff, all the prisoners were rescued, without particular consequences », explain Giovanni Battista Durante, add -general secretary of the Sappe and Francesco Ciccone, regional secretary.
An agent reported a contusion deemed curable in seven days, by the doctors of the city hospital. “We return to talk about prisoners with psychiatric problems, renewing the appeal of the President Giorgia Meloni for recent days, so that the Parliament intervenes as soon as possible, to change the closing law of judicial psychiatric hospitals, as indicated by the Constitutional Court in sentence 22 of January 2022 The two trade unionists conclude.