“I want to understand how a person arrives at the fourth stage of a devastating disease and is released only ten days after the end of the sentence.” The AVS MEP has said so Mimmo Lucano that this morning, together with the legal manager of his staff Andrea Daqua, He went to Argechillà prison, of Reggio Calabria, to have explanations on the reason why, according to him, adequate care would not have been lent to the prisoner Habashy Rashed Hassan Arafaan Egyptian who had been sentenced on charges of being a smuggle. In prison since 2021, Habashy has been released on February 24 – after in January, as reported by some notes of the director of the District House and the Health Coordinator, the conditions of the prisoner “have precipitated” – due to a tumor and hospitalized in the Oncology department of the Locri hospital. There he remained until March 2 when with an ambulance, after a request from the primary of the hospital to the mayor Lucano, was accompanied to Riace.
The Egyptian told Lucano that he had said several times that he did not feel good but, not speaking Italian, nobody understood that he remained in prison until he served almost all the sentence that ended today, March 7. In fact, Habashy has been released because his health conditions, according to what was written by the surveillance magistrate, “are not absolutely compatible with the prison regime”. Hence Lucano’s decision to go to prison to understand what happened.
“I spoke with two deputy commodes of the prison police – said Lucano – and I will also talk to the doctor of the prison structure. Here they told us that everyone says they feel bad and then it is difficult to understand who accuses a illness truly. They told me that this man never complained. This is a type of illness that, since it arises when there are devastating symptoms, it takes little to us. The medical manager who, according to what have told us today, would have insisted on the many times to make him hospitalized will clarify. It is not clear why they didn’t do it before. Today he is in Riace and is making pain therapy. I don’t think he was a smuggle but I don’t intend to intrude on judicial reasons. However, I believe that, instead of being in a prison, he needed to be taken to a hospital to be treated. Maybe he wouldn’t get to the fourth stadium. He is a person who has undergone a strong injustice, an evident violation of human rights. It is the one I ask today for him, who has five children in Egypt, and for his family. I will bring this question to Europe ».