Prison beating of boss Alessio Peluso: appeal against the acquittal of the agents

He had led the revolt in the Frosinone prison in September last year. He was transferred to the Reggio Calabria prison,

Alessio Peluso called o' nir, young Camorra boss of the dissolved Lo Russo clan di Miano during a hearing of one of the trials he is undergoing had taken off his shirt during a video conference with the Court of Napoli  showing the signs of the beatings to the judges. That complaint did not go unheard and was then reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Reggio Calabria.

And last November, six prison officers were arrested on charges of being the perpetrators of the beating.

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And today the Public Prosecutor's Office of Reggio Calabria has filed an appeal against the acquittal ordered by the preliminary hearing judge, Vincenzo Quaranta, against six prison police officers accused of being responsible for the beating, which took place in January 2022 in prison, to the detriment of the young man cammorist Alessio Peluso.

At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, which took place on 23 September, the preliminary hearing judge had sent eight defendants to trial, six prison police officers, including the commander, Stephen The Cava, a prison doctor and a nurse, accused of torture and aggravated bodily harm.

While he had ordered the dismissal of charges against six other officers, Alessandro Gugliotta, Carmelo Vazzana, Diego Ielo, Angelo Longo, Stefano Munafò and Antonino Biondo.

Decision motivated by the fact that the latter, according to the preliminary hearing judge, had indeed participated in the beating “but only with a passive presence – the judge wrote in the sentence – and not participating in the violent actions”.

The acquitted officers, the judge also wrote, “they did not, at any time, commit acts of violence against the prisoner Peluso”.

Against the ruling of the preliminary hearing judge, the Prosecutor's Office has filed an appeal, signed by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, the deputy prosecutor Stefano Musolino and the substitute prosecutor Sara Parezzan, to the Court of Appeal, requesting that the preliminary hearing judge's order be “it should be declared null and void and all the defendants should be sent to trial”.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, in particular, in the judge's sentence “the acquittal formula is missing and it is not clear why the defendants were acquitted”.