After his return to Italy, the convicted murderer Chico Forti was transferred to the Verona prison. Then he left to visit his mother in Trento. In the meantime he also took a few tours of the facility and was amazed by the professional chef who prepares lunches and dinners for him. But apparently not everyone liked the treatment, he explains today Republic. “Come here with us to see what hell this is”, say the other prisoners as reported by the Barre di Zucchero association. “It’s sad to see this situation of privilege, especially if those watching this show are people who have to share a few meters of living space in a cell,” says the wife of an inmate.
The protests
Marco Costantini, secretary of “Sbarre di sugar”, adds: «There are people who have been waiting for 5 years to go and visit their mother. And sometimes there are those who can’t even get to the cemetery to greet their deceased loved one. Why is everything so fast with him? In an already problematic prison like Montorio there cannot be Series A prisoners and others from Series Z.” Even the unions are angry. «Prison is not a stage in which stars can do their show and receive highly regarded treatments and benefits», says Aldo Di Giacomo, secretary of the Penitentiary Police Union. Who also protests against the prisoner’s shots: «The staff are not photographers, but they have much more serious tasks to think about. Everyone assumes their responsibilities: we expect the prison administration to identify every responsibility in the interest of legality, to distance itself from the image that Italian prisons have had throughout the world as yet another Italian joke.”
