Moments of fear in the Oristano prison, where an inmate from the “high security” section attacked a prison policeman, even attempting to strangle him.
The episode was reported by the general secretary of the UIL PA Penitentiary Police of Sardinia Michele Cireddu.
"The prisoner - explains Cireddu - initially asked for clarifications on a request he had made to the management to obtain permission to make a phone call. While the policeman told him that he would ask the relevant offices if he had actually been authorized, the prisoner went into a rage and cowardly attacked him".
"From the first reconstructions - Cireddu continues - it seems that the prisoner, after hitting him in the face, taking advantage of the fact that the officer fell to the ground, began to strangle him. If another officer and two other prisoners had not intervened, a tragedy would have occurred".
The officer, after being rescued, was transported to the city hospital where he is currently still under observation.
"The prison of Oristano - continues Cireddu - is now constantly in the spotlight for extremely critical events. The attacks and threats by troublemaking inmates are increasingly numerous ; we continue to maintain that the management of the Institute by the Directorate is characterized by a bureaucracy that in fact paralyzes the work of the police, who find themselves facing the protests of inmates with a very high criminal profile".
Again, the secretary of Uil Pa denounces: « Absences due to work-related stress are worryingly increasing, because even the most structured and stoic police officers, faced with a very poor quality of work, give in and are overwhelmed by a situation that is no longer humanly tolerable . The staff feels abandoned by the institutions and tries in every way to remedy the flaws of a system that we define as a failure. This inevitably leads to an accumulation of stress that becomes unmanageable».
"The top of the Administration – Cireddu concludes – must intervene immediately, before these events have a tragic epilogue".
