He has been on hunger strike in the Bancali prison for four months. We are talking about Domenico Porcelli , 49 years old, detained under the 41 bis sentence and sentenced by the court of Matera in 2022 to 26 and a half years in prison for criminal association of the mafia type .
For the man, originally from the Apulian municipality of Bitritto, the renewal of the hard prison measure was decided on 30 January and he has stopped eating since 28 February .
An extreme gesture born in protest against the prison regime of 41 bis considered unfair.
In 120 days Porcelli has already lost 18 kg and his physical conditions are deteriorating so much that he has had to resort to IV administrations .
The detainee's two lawyers, Maria Teresa Pintus and Livia Lauria, have already filed a complaint with the Surveillance Court of Rome asking for the annulment of the 41 bis decree because, according to them, the conditions that legitimize the decision of the Ministry of Justice are missing.
But a date for the hearing has not yet been set .
