Turin dies in prison after losing 25 kilos: the case ends up in court
Died in prison at 28 after losing 25 kilos of weight. The case of Antonio Raddi, who died two years ago in the Vallette prison, has ended up in court, after numerous reports from the guarantor of the prisoners at the direction of the penitentiary.
The family members asked not to dismiss the investigation into his death, after the prosecutor asked for a second technical advice on the case.
The young man, suffering from a neurological disease since childhood, had arrived in Vallette on 28 April 2019 after a conviction for robbery, mistreatment and evasion. He weighed 80 kilos when he entered prison, rising to around 50 kilos in November. Raddi said he could not eat but the prison workers believed he was pretending.
According to his cellmate, on December 13 he began to “vomit blood, defecate and faint” and was in the emergency room of the Maria Vittoria hospital, where he fell into a coma, before dying on December 30.
“He always said he was unwell and asked my parents for help, but what could they do? They went to him once a week, ”his sister Natascia Raddi told the local newspaper Chronicle Here. “During the last visit, he was in a wheelchair. The doctor who examined him at the Maria Vittoria said that the state he was in is not something that happens overnight, ”he added.
The case had been reported nine times from the guarantor of the detainees Monica Gallo to the prison management, who had replied two weeks after the first report, dating back to 7 August, denying there had been “particular critical issues”.
In the following weeks the parents had having seen her son increasingly “wasted” and on 23 September, the guarantor had spoken of a “dramatic worsening of the physical and mental state”. On November 19, the Serd representative had again alerted the guarantor, stating in the following weeks that Raddi was no longer able to “ingest neither solid nor liquid”. After a visit on 4 December, the guarantor had written that the boy “begs to intervene, he has the same appearance as Stefano Cucchi”.
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