“My son is imprisoned in shocking conditions.” This was stated by the mother of Filippo Mosca, a 29-year-old who has been detained for about nine months in the Porta Alba prison in Costanza in Romania, after a first degree sentence of 8 years and 6 months for international drug trafficking. Her story closely resembles that of Ilaria Salis, the 39-year-old from Milan detained in Hungary on charges of having participated in the attack of two neo-Nazis during a counter-demonstration in Budapest on 11 February 2023.
The story of Filippo Mosca
Filippo Mosca, a native of Caltanissetta, had decided in April 2023 with some friends to participate in a music festival, the “Mamaia”, which takes place every year in the summer theater of Costanza. But his holiday soon turned into a nightmare, both for him and for his mother, Ornella Matraxia, resident in London, with two other daughters Claudia and Arianna. “My son lives in a cell of about 30 m2 with 24 other inmates, who have a hole in the floor as a bathroom. Not a squat toilet, but a hole, used by everyone, always clogged and never cleaned”, he said. the woman said. “The hygienic-sanitary conditions are disastrous to say the least but we are doing everything possible to get my son out of the prison-lager he is in. The Romanian lawyer who assists him has asked for a meeting with the management of the institute, but we have also requested the presence of representatives of our embassy from which we await a response”. When was the last contact with the Farnesina? “It dates back to last January 24th, when my Romanian lawyer and I were received by an official. They know the facts and have a copy of the file, they found a series of inconsistencies. They told me that they cannot intervene from a judicial perspective and that on the prison conditions would have affected the embassy”. In these 9 months the Romanian lawyer has asked for the benefit of house arrest which, however, has always been denied.
A parliamentary question
Meanwhile, Italia Viva MP Roberto Giachetti has announced a parliamentary question on the matter. According to what emerged, Mosca suffered violence from other prisoners, risking being stabbed. Rita Bernardini, president of “Nessuno Tocchi Caino” was also interested in the matter and is making a lawyer available to intervene with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
