High tension yesterday afternoon, in the Valle Armea prison, in Sanremo. Explains Vincenzo Tristaino, secretary for Liguria of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police: “A 35-year-old foreign prisoner, unable to make a phone call, went into a complete rage, devastating the premises and furnishings of Section III, even the Agents’ office. Moments of very high tension that only the cool blood and professionalism of the police officers, who isolated the troublemaker, avoided with dramatic consequences”. The trade unionist denounces that “this is only the latest of the increasingly frequent violent acts carried out by the prisoners and it is serious that the administration cannot find a solution and leaves the staff abandoned to themselves. Strong and heartfelt thanks are to all the police officers who intervened with great sacrifice”. Stop the SAPPE complaint: “These events are the result of a situation of prison tension in the Piedmont-Aosta-Liguria District already widely highlighted by SAPPE, further aggravated by the lack of personnel: we are asking for a technical inspection by the PRAP and concrete interventions in favor of our colleagues in the SANREMO prison”.
For Donato Capece, general secretary of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police, who expresses solidarity and closeness to the entire operational department of Valle Armea, in Sanremo, “urgent and structural interventions are needed to restore the right legality to the penitentiary circuit, intervening first and foremost on the open custodial regime. We need police officers, technology and training for those on the front lines in the Sections, tools for defense and combating violence”. The reference of the national leader of SAPPE is to the need to “provide for the expulsion of foreign prisoners, a third of those currently present in Italy, to make them serve their sentences in their prisons and the reopening of Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals where prisoners with psychiatric problems, increasingly numerous, are placed in the ordinary prison circuit”. But Capece also returns to urge, for the Penitentiary Police, “the provision of the taser, which could be the most useful tool par excellence in anti-aggression (also because it is possible to know the physical and medical conditions of each prisoner before being able to use the electric pulse gun)”.
