In the late evening of June 17th, An internship of the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto prison work housemoved by futile reasons, he hurled himself against a penitentiary police superintendent, repeatedly hitting him on the face. The attacker, now out of control, has therefore also lashed out against the agents who intervened to the rescue, causing them serious bruises and wounds. Although he had finally been contained by the agents, the internship was able to spit blood on the face of the director of the Institute, Romina Taianiperhaps with the aim of transmitting his infectious pathologies, including HIV and hepatitis C. The injured agents were urgently transported to the hospital with a total prognosis of 16 days.
“The FP CGIL – affirm the secretary general Francesco Fucile and the provincial coordinator Giovanni Spanò – expresses all his solidarity and closeness to the agents who remained injured and the director of the institute, congratulating them with them for having faced the emergency in the best way, also at the cost of his safety. This umpteenth aggression – continues and spanò – represents a strong cry of alarm: the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto prison has now become a place of war, where the working conditions are unsustainable, the staff is under staff and the structures are inadequate “.
The FP CGIL therefore urges the immediate activation of an inspection visit by the Department of the Prison Administration, so that all the critical issues and adopted urgent interventions are detected.