Tension at the Novara prison: inmate climbs onto the roofs and threatens the officers with tiles

Tension last night in the Novara prison where a foreign prisoner who was using the gym managed to evade surveillance and climb onto the roofs. The news was given by Vicente Santilli, Piedmontese secretary of the Sappe who continues «following the timely intervention of the police personnel, feeling surrounded, the prisoner began to threaten the officers with throwing tiles at him if they even approached. The work of persuasion continued until late in the evening when the prisoner spontaneously decided to put an end to his initiative by coming down from the roof”.

«The overall picture of yet another critical event highlights, more than a thousand words, the high tension of Piedmontese prisons – underlines the general secretary of Sappe Donato Capece – in 2023 the episodes of violence, threats, insults, insults and resistance to the public official there were 836, of which 508 committed by foreigners, there were 238 physical attacks on Penitentiary Police personnel (147 foreigners responsible) and 1,075 damages to cells and departments, 301 involving Italian prisoners and 774 foreigners . Urgent and effective measures are needed in prisons to restore order and security.”