Ministry of Justice and Provincial Health Authority of Crotone have been identified as civil managers of the trial against three people resulting from the investigation into suicide in prison of the 39 -year -old from Petilia Policastro, Danilo Garofalowhich took place on 22 September 2022. The judge decided today Chiara Daminelli who is judging Francesco Antonio Lamannathe 70 -year -old psychiatrist in service at the Crotone prison, and the two prison police officers, the chief assistant Gino Pace, 56 years of verzino, and the superintendent Ercole Lista, 61 years old from Cerenzia. Everyone must answer for manslaughter.
Now the Dicastery and the ASP, although not having committed the crime for which we proceed, will be required to compensate the damage that can be found in the event of conviction of the defendants. According to the prosecutor of Crotone, on the three accused “the obligation to prevent the suicide of Garofalo” was hanging in the “light of a clinical picture” from which “a high risk of suicide” of the 39 -year -old would emerge for four reasons: his state of drug addiction; the two compulsory health treatments made previous suicide attempts; assistance to the mental health center; and family problems from which the precautionary measure had arisen in prison to which he was subjected on charges of abuse in the family.
Specifically, the psychiatrist Lamanna is charged to have arranged “orally the great surveillance” for Garofalo without “ensuring” that he entered the cell without the laces of the shoes then used to hang himself. In the same way, the doctor is held responsible for not ordering both “H24 surveillance” for the prisoner and the psychiatric visit. While the Peace and List agents must reply that they have made Garofalo in the cell with shoes in the cell, not guaranteeing “continuous surveillance”.
The next hearing is scheduled for July 3 during which the Ministry of Justice and the Provincial Health Authority will have to be established. The defendants are defended by lawyers Aldo Truncè and Francesco Larattawho contest the accusations made to their clients. While the 39 -year -old family members are assisted by lawyers Giovanbattista Scordamaglia and Mariapia Antonella Garofalo.