Sit-in agents in front of the Santa Maria prison: 'We guarantee safety'. Over a hundred Penitentiary Police agents and trade unionists from six unions – Osapp, Uspp, Cnpp, Sinappe, Uil-Pa, Fns-Cisl – demonstrated outside the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CASERTA) to ask that the Corps be treated with "dignity equal to that of other police forces", and no longer suffer "mortifications" like that of Thursday 11 June, when the Carabinieri notified the agents of the notices of investigation for alleged violence committed against prisoners, but in ways deemed excessively "spectacular";
the military in fact stationed themselves in front of the prison, in front of the relatives of the inmates, with the aim of identifying some officers who were going on duty, and to whom they had to notify the judicial documents, arousing protest and indignation among the policemen, who felt, and still feel today, delegitimized, especially in the eyes of the inmates with whom they are in daily contact. "We are neither thugs nor torturers, but we guarantee, and we do so in the exclusive interest of the citizens, security in Italian prisons", says Ciro Auricchio, regional secretary of the Uspp, with a clear reference to the crime of torture contested by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere to the 57 officers. "As policemen we feel abandoned; we have witnessed the catwalks made by politicians and the leaders of our administration, but nothing has changed. There are 100 colleagues on sick leave, the Gom men sent by the Dap do not carry out our duties, but their presence reassures us anyway”, says Gaetano Napoleone, a unionist for the Uspp and an officer at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison. “We demand that the prison system be profoundly renovated” says the general secretary of the Sinappe Roberto Santini, while his regional counterpart Pasquale Gallo shouts “we are all Santa Maria Capua Vetere”. The Osapp, present with the general secretary Pasquale Montesano and the regional Vincenzo Palmieri, reiterates the request for the resignation of the Minister of Justice Bonafede. A small delegation from the national association of private security guards, led by the national president Giuseppe Alviti, was also present at the demonstration, as a sign of solidarity with the officers.
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