Late yesterday morning an inmate of the Gazzi prison, a Messina, attempted to hit an officer in the face and then tried to set fire to his own cell. Three policemen were rushed to the emergency room Polyclinic. Moments of great tension were experienced late yesterday morning by the police officers Penitentiary Police of the prison of Messina, when a prisoner of Tunisian origins, in expressing his dissent towards the rules established within the structure, armed with scissors, threw himself against an officer on duty, repeatedly trying to hit him in the face. Colleagues intervened immediately but were also hit. Three of them were rushed to the emergency room of the Polyclinic.
“Once again – denounce the General Secretary of the FP CGIL Francesco Fucile and the provincial coordinator Giovanni Spanò – we find ourselves reporting an extremely serious episode which has put the safety of the officers operating inside the prison at risk, who were also called to intervene to foil the subsequent attempt by the same prisoner to start a fire in the own room. The operators promptly managed to save him and put out the flames that were blazing inside the department. We cannot fail to highlight how the repetition of episodes of this kind only makes the work of these workers particularly complex, towards whom we express our utmost solidarity. We therefore once again urge the Management of the Messina prison to subject the actions of the police officers to evaluation by the Department’s Rewards Commission, and to implement concrete actions to protect the officers themselves, who are now more than ever forced to work in conditions increasingly complex”.
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