Turin – He had undergone a psychiatric examination to check if he was homosexual. Now a selected prison police officer has presented an appeal to the Piedmont Regional Administrative Court, obtaining compensation of 10 thousand euros for “moral damage”.
The sum was paid to the Ministry of Justice. The tests had been ordered after a report (which turned out to be false) from two inmates in the prison where the officer worked.
The administration ordered the test to “clarify” the agent's personality but according to the Piedmont Regional Administrative Court the decision was “arbitrary and without any legal or technical-scientific basis”. It was in fact an “undue overlap” between sexual orientation and personality disorder. The appeal is due in 2022. When addressing the judges the officer complained about the conduct with which the administration had “pilloried” him.
He said that during the disciplinary proceedings he was asked “ambiguous questions” about his sexual orientation and was subsequently referred for “psychiatric tests” to the hospital medical commission in Milan. The health workers found no elements from which to infer unfitness for service and the disciplinary complaints were dismissed. The agent also claimed to have been mocked and marginalized by colleagues and to have experienced a “strong situation of stress”. But on this chapter the TAR did not recognize the right to compensation.
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