One
inmate
was
kidnapped
and
raped
by two fellow inmates.
It happened in the Roman prison of
Regina Coeli,
according to
Sappe
, the autonomous union of the prison police.
The perpetrators of the violence, according to the trade union organization, are two inmates of Slavic origin accused of robbery and other crimes.
To put an end to the violence, during which the victim was threatened with a rudimentary knife and kept tied with a rope, the intervention of prison policemen.
The detainee was then transported to the hospital
, where - according to Sappe - he was found to be seriously injured.
"A shameful and gruesome episode certainly favored by the easing of internal security due to dynamic vigilance", says Maurizio Somma, secretary of Sappe Lazio.
"These are the fruits of a reduced surveillance as a consequence of the crazy dynamic vigilance, the self-management of prisons and the objective numbers of the staff shortages of the Penitentiary Police Department of Rome Regina Coeli", relaunches the national head of the union Donato Capece, who he adds: "What has happened is of unprecedented gravity and is the consequence of the nefarious dismantling of prison security policies, which in fact resulted in a dangerous self-management of prisons. The system, for adults and minors, is crumbling every day of more".
Meanwhile, the
union
is pointing the finger at what it defines as "wicked measures": it ranges from the "open prison regime, with inmates out of cells for at least eight hours a day with sporadic and occasional checks" to the suppression of the sentries of the Penitentiary Police surveillance from the prison walls, from the lack of staff of the prison policemen to the lack of funding for anti-intrusion and anti-climb-over services.
"
Politics
completely screwed it up", concludes Capece.