“I was threatened because he wanted me to believe he was really depressed, but he was pretending,” is what the psychiatrist said at the trial being held with the ordinary rite, before the sixth section of the Milan court, against the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele Zagaria, detained under the 41 bis regime in the Tolmezzo prison. The former clan leader is accused of threats that he made during a meeting with doctors but that he also sent to the prison director Giacinto Siciliano: “I compare the director to a garbage bag and I throw the garbage out”. Zagaria also sibyllinely told the prison police, as they themselves confirmed in court during the trial, “if that report leaves the section I will get 15 days of isolation…you must delete from the report the part where I tell her to get closer to the cell gate to attack her, or you must tear up the sheet”. Among the charges also "having slapped a prison officer twice, having broken the camera that monitored him with a stick and the window of his cell". Next December 7th it will be exactly eight years that the boss has been detained under 41 bis and last year from May 5th to 19th there were days of madness. In addition to the immediate transfer to another prison in Zagaria those 12 days cost him eleven complaints, in fact he is accused of 11 crimes aggravated by the mafia method in this new proceeding that is being celebrated in Milan. He is even said to have staged a suicide attempt. "They want to make me regret it but I will never regret it" he declared when he was stopped by the men of the prison and he continues to repeat it in every video conference in the courtrooms, Zagaria reiterated it the other day, in front of the president of the sixth section in Milan. The public prosecutor's closing statement and the hearing of his lawyer Paolo Di Furia have been set for January 15th.
Article published on November 27, 2019 - 12:01
