Carmine Garofalo, the inmate of the Regina Coeli prison, found dead in his cell last August 16, had had a fight with his cellmate three days earlier.
This is what emerges from the prison records, regarding the death of the prisoner and on which the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation.
According to the complaint presented on the basis of the testimony of other inmates, Garofalo was allegedly attacked from behind, probably by his cellmate, and suffocated.
Two witnesses claim - some newspapers report that have anticipated the story - that Garofalo, who had also attempted suicide in the past, had already quarreled with his recently arrived cellmate.
It would be a man with psychiatric problems who, according to the two witnesses, in the past would have tried to kill another cellmate.
The Guarantor: 'Why did the case not emerge immediately?'
- "When there are rumors or something that is reported and reported it is always necessary to go to the bottom on two levels: on the one hand by the Prosecutor's Office and on the other by the prison administration. di Carmine Garofalo is well founded, because the case did not emerge immediately, but only now? It is clear that an internal investigation is absolutely necessary to clarify. This whispering, this saying and not saying is always disturbing ".
Thus the National Guarantor for prisoners regarding the death of a prisoner in Regina Coeli, last August 16, on which the Rome Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation.
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