A video showing the alleged torture of an inmate has been presented among the evidence filed by the Reggio Emilia Public Prosecutor's Office after it said it had concluded a criminal probe into 10 prison guards.
Eight of the guards are accused of the crime of torture.
The video shows the beating of a 40-year-old Tunisian detainee on 3 April in a corridor of Reggio Emilia jail.
The footage, taken by cameras inside the prison, shows the man, hooded with a pillowcase, tripped over, punched in the face and on the side, stamped on with boots and held down for minutes by his arms and legs by prison officers.
He was then stripped naked and, still hooded, dragged into his cell.
Notification that an investigation has been concluded frequently comes before Italian prosecutors requests indictments.
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