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3 September 2025 - 20:49
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14 September 2025 - 06:28
There was no manslaughter in connection with the death of inmate Hakimi Lamine.
The Algerian committed suicide in May 2020 in the isolation cell of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison where he had been locked up after the beatings of prisoners occurred a month earlier, on April 6th.
This is what was established by the Court of Appeal of Naples which partly rejected on the merits and partly declared inadmissible the appeal that the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere presented against the decisions taken last June by the investigating judge. Sergio Enea.
The Prosecutor's Office once again requested prison and house arrest for twenty-one defendants - many of whom have already spent periods of imprisonment or preventive arrest - and for seven of them, including some of importance such as the penitentiary police officers. Pasquale Colucci, Gaetano Manganelli and Anna Rita Costanzo, the measure had been requested for cooperation in manslaughter in relation to the death of the Algerian prisoner which the investigating judge had classified as a suicide not connected to the conduct of the suspects.
The preliminary investigations judge held that Hakimi committed suicide, as admitted by the investigating judge, while for the Prosecutor the Algerian's death would have been the consequence of the negligence and faults of the agents and doctors, such as the toxic quantity of drugs - opiates, neuroleptics and benzodiazepines - taken. "in rapid succession and without health supervision", according to which the event would have depended both on the beating he suffered a month earlier during the violence and on the conditions in which he was held during solitary confinement.
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According to the Neapolitan judges, the time elapsed between the violence and the death was too long to establish a causal link. Furthermore, the Naples Court of Appeal held that "the suicide hypothesis deserves further investigation, as it cannot be said to have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt."
The Review also rejected the appeal of the two ASL doctors working at the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere Raffaele Stellato and Pasquale Iannotta, considering it to be of no interest given that the Prosecutor's Office has proposed a plea bargain for the two health workers of two years in prison with conditional suspension of the sentence.
The magistrates then declared the appeal inadmissible for five defendants, including the former regional prison superintendent. Antonio Fullone (still suspended from service) and the former acting director of the prison Mary Parents.
La Demand had appealed against the decisions taken by the investigating judge on 28 June 2021, when the magistrate had issued 52 precautionary measures (eight prison orders, 18 house arrest, three residence obligations and 23 suspensions from service) against prison officers and officials of the DapInitially, the Prosecutor's Office had requested the issuance of a new and more severe precautionary measure for 45 suspects, for whom the investigating judge had excluded certain charges and aggravating circumstances, rejecting the relative request for a precautionary measure or granting a different and less severe measure than the one proposed. It then withdrew the order for 24 suspects.
Ultimately, however, the Review Court agreed with the position of the defendants' defense attorneys (Mariano Omarto, Giuseppe Stellato, Ernesto De Angelis, Angelo Raucci, and Carlo De Stavola). The proceedings will now continue with the preliminary hearing scheduled for March 29.
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