
The president of Consipe Mimmo Nicotra denounces the episode and calls for urgent measures for safety in Sicilian prisons
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The episode follows a recent riot at the Syracuse-Cavadonna institute. Sicilian prisons are reported as critical for overcrowding and staff shortages.
"What happened just now at the prison in Trapani is not a simple attack: it is a cowardly attempted murder, premeditated and carried out with unprecedented ferocity". This was stated by Mimmo Nicotra, national president of the Confederation of Penitentiary Trade Unions (Consipe) regarding the attack which occurred in the Mediterranean department on a penitentiary police inspector who was "hit on the head by a jet of boiling oil thrown voluntarily from above while passing through the lower floor". "The colleague, who was seriously burned - adds Nicotra - was rushed to hospital with serious injuries".
"We are faced with yet another act of a real war declared against the Penitentiary Police - observes Nicotra - Sicily is now an open-air powder keg. Only a few days ago we witnessed the very serious revolt in Syracuse-Cavadonna, with inmates climbing onto the roofs, sections devastated, cameras destroyed and colleagues forced to jump from meters in the air or violently attacked to contain the fury of the rioters, with dozens of policemen ending up in hospital".
The president of Consipe asks the Ministry of Justice and the Dap for "the immediate transfer out of the region of the person responsible for the Trapani ambush and application of the special regime, with criminal proceedings for attempted aggravated murder", the "urgent and massive displacement of the Sicilian institutions, starting from Cavadonna and Trapani, now collapsing due to overcrowding and lack of staff" and "immediate structural measures such as the ban and seizure of containers and materials to contain and heat burning liquids in the detention sections at risk and urgent installation of anti-launch nets and bulkheads".
"If immediate responses and tangible actions do not arrive from Rome and the Regional Authority within the next few hours - Nicotra announces - Consipe will proclaim a state of national agitation and promote sensational protest initiatives to protect the lives and dignity of colleagues. The Penitentiary Police will no longer act as a human shield against the State's inertia".
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