Guarantor for Campania prisoners, ‘justice and truth after silences complicit at the top’

“Luckily justice and truth for the slaughter of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, conjugated together, go on. Because here there have been too many complicit silences at the top. I think about politics, the Department, the Ministry of Justice: how could they not know? “. Samuele Ciambriello, guarantor of the Campania detainees, thus comments to Adnkronos the request for indictment of 108 agents and officials of the prison administration for the beating that took place in the Campania penitentiary on April 6, 2020. “Against me – urges – there was a virulent delegitimization campaign because, already two days after the events, I had filed a first complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office and then a subsequent one with the names, surnames and date of birth of prisoners who spoke to me of abuse, torture, even even conspiratorial attitudes “. “There are two things about this state slaughter that still anger me – says Ciambriello – of the 375 who entered there only one stood between the agents and the prisoners and then the number of requests for indictment is very limited. we call ourselves a democratic country, why don’t we get indignant to see scenes of prison police officers beating defenseless people in wheelchairs and we can’t identify them because their faces are covered by helmets? , why don’t we put the identification numbers on the helmets? So if a crime is committed, the investigators know who is responsible. nothing, she is deaf, cynical, fearful. The agents are few, forced to do the work that educators should do, who are very few, often have to deal with people with psychic suffering. Aum Entering the staff – he adds – means decreasing the tension in prisons. Last year in Campania there were nine suicides and 162 attempts, thwarted only thanks to the prompt intervention of the agents – he underlines – isolated, often alone watching over 100 inmates, the only ones to avert suicides. In the last year and a half, Dap and the Ministry of Justice have not shown up on prisons. The State has been absent in some ways: now it could, with refreshments and the strengthening of agents, educators, psychologists and psychiatrists, give a concrete answer “. (By Silvia Mancinelli)