The Ferrara prosecutor has opened a file against unknown persons for the hypothesis of crime for sexual violence against a 43 -year -old transgender prisoner, imprisoned since April in the city prison. The investigations are entrusted to the prosecutor Ombretta times that coordinates the prison police. An internal assessment was then started by the prison management.
The videos of the internal cameras of the prison are under consideration, in particular of those who resume the corridors to reconstruct the movements of the prisoners in the Ferrara prison. The rape towards the trans prisoner by four people would have occurred in a cell. The prisoner would have been attracted by the prisoners with the excuse of a coffee and attacked and raped. In the Ferrara prison there is no section dedicated to trans, instead present in Reggio Emilia from which the prisoner comes.
On June 24, the imprisonment showed up in the infirmary, denouncing the alleged abuse suffered by four Italian people. It was then brought to the emergency room and the investigations were started below. The Criminal Chamber of Ferrara also intervened on the episode, which will meet the prison director next week. The imprisonment, originally from Cosenza, an end of the sentence 2027, had already shown a few months earlier the fear of suffering sexual violence, signaling that he had suffered harassment in the corridor and had asked to be moved.