Justice. The father and the lawyer ask for it trappers Jordan Jeffrey Baby, who demand it be done clarity on a story still characterized today by many, too many dark sides. Jordan Tinti – this is the real name of 26 year old found lifeless in Pavia prisonon the night between March 11th and 12th – had already reported in the past that he had suffered abuse and mistreatment during his detention in that penitentiary. Previously he had obtained therapeutic placement in a communitybut the Surveillance Court had ordered his return to prison because a cell phone and cigarettes (prohibited by regulation) had been found in the boy’s room. As, in that same institute where he had already experienced the nightmare of mistreatment, Jordan Jeffrey Baby has ended its short and troubled existence.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Pavia decided to order an autopsy and to open a case for manslaughter, an act necessary in these cases to allow for investigations. All trails remain openeven if the one relating to the extreme gesture seems to be the most accredited hypothesis at the moment. However, a question remains that cannot be answered in this case: why was Tinti made to return to the very place where he had reported having suffered abuse and mistreatment? The trappers was located in the section ‘protected‘ and he had already attempted to take his own life in the past. He had been convicted with a shortened sentence of 4 years and 4 months in prison for a robbery (which took place on 10 August 2022) with the aggravating circumstance of racial hatred against a 42-year-old worker originally from Nigeria. Together with Tintiduring the attack in the Carnate station (Monza and Brianza), there was the trappers Roman Traffik (stage name of Gianmarco Fagà), sentenced to 5 years and 4 months.
We have written several times on these pages intolerable conditions in which Italian prisons find themselves. In the sad story of Jordan Tinti it’s worth dwelling on a further, no less important aspect: young people and the illusion of popularity social. After a difficult childhood (mother always absent and father with a serious disability), various problems due to the use of narcotics and psychotropic drugs and depression to live with, Tinti was trying to make his way in the music world trap. He had become famous social, but it wasn’t so much his songs that made him famous but rather the news events in which he ended up involved. And after every foolish thing he committed, his popularity grew: the more trouble he made, the more people followed him. In a vicious circuit that fed itself and whose end seemed already written. It is no coincidence that the very attack against the Nigerian worker that would have led him to prison was filmed and published online. On those same ones social which, after having built an ephemeral fame, they hosted after the tragedy occurred vile comments like these: “One down”, “What great news” or “Justice has finally been done”.
A 26 year old who ends his life like that is a failure for everyone. Jordan Tinti needed help, not of followers.
Of Philip Messina
