Cesare Battisti, former CAP terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment for 4 murders and other serious crimes, will soon be transferred from the Sardinian prison in Oristano to the Calabrian prison in Rossano, where he will be imprisoned in the high security circuit 2, or the one intended for prisoners convicted of facts related to terrorism.
The Dap (Department of the Penitentiary Administration) rejected, with the assent of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, Battisti's request to obtain a more mitigated detention regime to be served in Rome or Milan.
Battisti, however, concluded the sentence of six months of imprisonment in daytime solitary confinement - inflicted on him together with life imprisonment - and now he can access a less rigid prison regime, with the social spaces provided for by the penitentiary system for the high-security circuit where they are prisoners of the crimes of the years of lead.
When a place in the Rossano prison is available, Battisti will be transferred and will spend 15 days there in medical isolation for Covid.
"We have not received any official information on a possible transfer of our client to the Rossano prison. If it were true, the revenge of the Italian state against Battisti continues".
Thus the lawyer Gianfranco Sollai, who defends together with his Milanese colleague Davide Steccanella Cesare Battisti, regarding press reports on a possible transfer of the former terrorist of the Proletarians armed for Communism from the Oristano prison of Massama to the prison of Rossano, in Calabria , in the AS2 High Security department.
For five days, Battista began a hunger strike to ask for the transfer to another structure, declaring himself "prisoner of a vindictive state".
But the solution hypothesized in Rossano's structure does not please his defenders at all.
"Battisti is always under the eye of the storm. If the transfer were confirmed - explained to ANSA Sollai - it would end up under high surveillance with a group of Muslims. The resocializing and re-educational purpose of detention is put in the drawer, the constitutional principles As for maintaining the classification in AS2, one wonders what are the elements that make the Dap believe that Battisti, after more than 40 years from the facts, is still dangerous ".
"I am a lawyer and I have written several formal petitions to the Dap and to the competent Ministry and I learn that the media enjoy the privilege of an answer that, in all these months, has never been given, thus making any appeal or appeal impossible. other. I also regret that to learn this it was necessary for my client to carry out an act such as a hunger strike ".
So Davide Steccanella, one of Cesare Battisti's lawyers, comments on the news that the former Pac terrorist will be transferred from the Oristano prison to the Calabrian one of Rossano.
A "prison", explains the lawyer, "in fact unreachable by family members and defenders as is well known to the Ministry".
The Department of Penitentiary Administration rejected Battisti's request for a more mitigated prison regime to be served in Rome or Milan.