An inmate in the Catanzaro prison attacked an officer and set fire to a mattresscausing a thick blanket of smoke that it has intoxicated three other officers. This was reported by the Sappe penitentiary police union.
The man had to go to the Disciplinary Council for previous violations. After various requests from the officer, considering that he was very late, the prisoner, according to Sappe’s reconstruction, he came out of the cell and attacked him with kicks and punches. Taken to the closed ward, the inmate then set the mattress on fire.
The four prison police officers had to resort to hospital treatment. «We have learned, among other things – they say John Baptist Durantedeputy general secretary of Sappe e Francesco Cicconeregional secretary – who, in less than a year, he would have been caught, three times, therefore with three different devices, using or, in any case, unlawfully possessing, mobile phones. What surprises us is that the same prisoner, following so many violations, continues to remain in the Catanzaro prison. We hope that someone will finally decide to apply the current provisions and have him transferred.”
