Opera, fight over the remote control: femicide strangles his cellmate
An argument between two inmates resulted in the murder of one of them. It happened late on Friday evening in the Opera prison in Milan. Calogero Lo Presti, regional coordinator for the FP CGIL penitentiary police of Lombardy, announced this in a note. “According to what emerged from the initial information, the triggering reason would be a discussion for trivial reasons between two Italian prisoners regarding the sharing of detention spaces. The judicial authority is working to conduct in-depth investigations into the murder”, reports Lo Presti.
According to the Corriere della Sera, the triggering reason would be a dispute over the television remote control. The killer is Domenico Massari: the man is serving a life sentence for the femicide of his ex-wife Deborah Ballesio happened in 2019 during an evening at karaoke in a beach establishment in Savona. The victim is Antonio Magrini, in prison for drug dealing.
Lo Presti underlines that “every day the prison policea must deal with the serious problems that afflict the Italian penitentiary system. Overcrowding, combined with a shortage of prison police personnel, medical personnel, educators and social workers, have resulted in an extremely difficult and dangerous environment for all the people detained and the staff who work there. It is urgent that the prison administration and the government take serious measures to address and resolve these critical issues''.
Mirko Manna, national coordinator of the FP CGIL penitentiary police, recalls that ''since the beginning of the year there have been 32 suicides of prisoners in Italian prisons, 4 suicides among members of the penitentiary police force and now a murder inside the Milan Opera prison. These are tragedies that signal an unequivocal crisis in the entire Italian penitentiary system”. For Manna “the measures proposed so far by the penitentiary administration and the government are completely inadequate. It is true that the entire penitentiary system inherits decades of wrong and insufficient choices, which is why it is now even more urgent to act with greater determination to improve the detention and working conditions of Italian prisons.
The FP CGIL penitentiary police – concludes the coordinator – asks for an open and constructive discussion on these issues and urges the Dap to review its policies to ensure the rights of the detained population and safe and dignified working conditions for members of the penitentiary police force “.
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