The escaped prisoner from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sappe, said, “It was a predictable escape.”
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After the sensational escape of a prisoner from the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto prison in Messina yesterday afternoon, the independent trade union Sappe protests, once again, about the “announced escape”. “Now it is a priority to capture the escaped prisoner,” denounces Donato Capece, General Secretary of Sappe, “but this serious incident brings to light the priorities of security (often neglected) that the men and women of the prison police have to deal with daily.” “For a long, too long, time worrying signs have come from the prison universe,” denounces the national leader of Sappe, “the various governments and department heads that have alternated over the years have adopted measures that guarantee order and security in prisons, undermining the very nature of punishment and prison, entrusting the prison to the inmates and weakening the role of the prison police.” “Sappe has been warning for some time that the internal security of prisons has been annihilated by disastrous measures such as dynamic surveillance and open regime, removing the sentinels of the prison police from the prison walls, the lack of prison police officers, the lack of funding for intrusion and anti-climbing systems that often do not work.” According to initial reconstructions, the man (from Milan) would have climbed down the walls using a makeshift rope made of sheets. “Police operations are already underway to ensure the capture of the escaped prisoner, whom I hope will be apprehended as soon as possible. But this escape is the result of the dismantling of prison security policies and the lack of prison police personnel, who have 7,000 fewer officers,” continues Capece. He specifically addresses the head of the prison administration department, Giovanni Russo: “We invite Chief Dap Russo to meet with Sappe to address the management of foreign prisoners, psychiatric patients, institute reorganization, and medium-security reform. But we also ask for the immediate application of Article 14 bis of the prison system, which provides for appropriate restrictions to contain violent and dangerous individuals. It would be appropriate to equip the prison police with tasers or any other useful tool to defend themselves against the violence of criminals who have no respect for rules and the people who represent the State.” “For this reason,” the statement continues, “the first trade union of the prison police does not rule out sensational forms of protest by the police officers, because the time for negotiations is over: in recent years, we have visited every prison in the country, for adults and minors, we have patiently listened to the staff, we have written to and rewritten to the various competent authorities, but we realize that those in charge have not yet taken the initiatives we have requested and expected.”
Il detenuto fuggito da Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, il Sappe: «Una evasione annunciata»
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