The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Italy for having treated inhumanly a prisoner with serious psychiatric problems, having continued to keep him in an ordinary prison despite the national courts, and later also the Court itself, having ordered it. the transfer to a center where he could be treated.
In the ruling, the ECHR established that Italy will have to pay him 36,400 euros for moral damages.
At the center of this story is Giacomo Seydou Sy, an Italian citizen born in 1994, resident in Mazzano Romano, who suffers from personality disorders and bipolarity.
The man for whose detention Italy was condemned by the ECHR is accused at various times of harassing his former partner, resisting a public official and theft.
Experts judge that he is "socially dangerous" but also partially irresponsible for the acts he commits, but above all that his state of health is not compatible with being held in an ordinary prison.
But despite this, and two decisions of the national courts, the man spends two years in prison in Rebibbia.
One reason is that the authorities are unable to find an alternative.
