Another attack in the Calabrian prison of Catanzaro. This morning, a very young officer was punched several times in the face by an inmate of the high security circuit. According to an initial reconstruction, the inmate believed that the officer had not greeted him. The news was reported by Sappe, the Autonomous Prison Police Union. «We believe that this prisoner should be immediately subjected to the most rigid penitentiary system referred to in article 14 bis of the penitentiary system», maintain Giovanni Battista Durante, deputy general secretary of the Sappe and Francesco Ciccone, national secretary.
Catanzaro is the most important institution in Calabria, with a presence of over 700 inmates, with a capacity of approximately 600 places. There are more than 300 prisoners subjected to the high security regime, including terrorists and mafiosi. The police department consists of approximately 380 units, out of 470 planned. «This further act of violence is absolutely intolerable, even more so for the reasons that would have generated it – add the trade unionists – in addition to the application of article 14 bis, we ask that the prisoner be immediately removed from Catanzaro. We hope that departments dedicated to violent prisoners will be established as soon as possible.”