Santa Maria Capua Vetere. 'Amò what do I have to tell you they beat us to death', here is the audio from which the investigation started that led to the issuing of 52 precautionary measures against the penitentiary police.
In the order on the events at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison, there is also the audio of a recorded communication between an inmate and a family member that Samuele Ciambriello, the guarantor of people subjected to restrictive measures of personal freedom in Campania, then forwarded to the prosecutor's office. The order states that on April 8, 2020, Ciambriello forwarded to the Public Prosecutor's Office of S.
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V. an explanatory letter with reference to the episodes that occurred on 5 and 6 April 2020 at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison – “Nilo” section – reporting, in particular, the mistreatment of inmates by Penitentiary Police personnel.
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In the complaint note, the guarantor “referred to some recordings of telephone conversations that took place between the inmates confined in the aforementioned department and their families, which were subsequently published on the social network Facebook”The judicial police traced the audio, which is reported in full in the order.
Here it is: D: Love!U: eee…
I love and what can I tell you! D: what happened yesterday, I saw on the internet that a mess happened LI: eee..D: my heart is in three thousand li: eee..they beat us to death. D: did he love you too? U: all of them! D: woah..
Darling, are you really doing this? M: (background voice) why? Why Andrea? U: eee…
a mess, now what do I have to tell you from here
But in the prison where there was a situation of overcrowding and fear of Covid infections, there were also those who were tortured. One of the inmates was forced to undress and while an officer blocked his hands, two others beat him.
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The man rhe recognizes in the photo one of the three officers who committed the attack: “He approached in the company of two others – he says – they forced me to undress and, while one officer blocked me with his hands behind my back and another struck me in the face and abdomen and in my private parts while I was naked, this one incited them to beat me”.
The investigating judge, in the introduction to his order on the alleged violence, focuses on the various stages of the agents' violence against the inmates, observing how "from their removal from the cells, to their passage and stop in the walking and social areas, as well as until their return to the cells themselves, the inmates were brutally beaten with kicks, slaps and punches, but above all with violent blows of truncheons inflicted on various parts of the body. Furthermore, as can be clearly seen from the aforementioned images, no inmate ever offered any resistance to the search activity, having taken care only to protect with their hands the parts of the body variously affected by the numerous blows they received".
Wheelchair inmate beaten. But there is also another chilling episode in the order signed by the investigating judge of Santa Maria Capua Vetere: an officer in riot gear who beats a prisoner in a wheelchair.
The video surveillance cameras, excerpts of which are contained in the order signed by the investigating judge who ordered the execution of 52 precautionary measures against the suspects, filmed some of the scenes that took place in the penitentiary.The video surveillance cameras, excerpts of which are contained in the order signed by the investigating judge, filmed some of the scenes that took place in the penitentiary.
At 16:21 p.m. on April 6, 2020, the first beating. At 16:40 p.m. another beating: this time a prison police officer in riot gear repeatedly hits a prisoner in a wheelchair with a truncheon.
Others are hit with slaps in the face or on the back of the head, forced to lower their heads. One prisoner is even surrounded by seven officers before being hit with a truncheon, another is grabbed by the t-shirt and dragged to the ground.
Article published on 28 June 2021 - 16:31
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