The head physician Tomaso Cocco was transferred to Sicily, from Uta to the High Security of the "Pagliarelli", among the most dangerous inmates of Cosa Nostra .
The doctor involved in the Monte Nuovo investigation - arrested by the DDA on charges of mafia-type criminal association - was removed from the island despite the Cagliari Review Court having decreed the absence of serious indications of guilt on the hypothesis of mafia . Other people were moved together with Cocco, whose names appear in the investigation by prosecutors Rossana Allieri and Emanuele Secci: Giuseppe Mesina in Civitavecchia, Nicolò Cossu in Voghera, Giovanni Mercurio in Livorno. The only one still in Sardinia is Tonino Crissantu (another nephew of Grazianeddu) who from Sassari was moved to the Badu 'e Carros prison in Nuoro.
Cocco therefore now finds himself in the penitentiary specialized in " High Security 3 ", i.e. prisoners who are accused of crimes of mafia-type association or committed with mafia methods, drug trafficking leaders, kidnappers. The news was published in L'Unione Sarda today on newsstands, in the article by Francesco Pinna . Maria Grazia Caligaris, of the Socialism Rights and Reforms Association, intervenes in the case. «The transfer of prisoners awaiting trial in the so-called "Monte Nuovo" investigation, from one part of the Peninsula to another, is seen as an act of arrogance on the part of the Department of Penitentiary Administration which does not respect the principle of the territoriality of punishment , as there are penitentiary institutions in Sardinia intended for AS3 such as Tempio and Massama". «In the case of the doctor Tomaso Cocco – continues Caligaris – the transfer to Sicily appears to be an obstinacy , given that the review had excluded the existence of the hypothesis of a crime of mafia association. The DAP cannot act towards people, especially if they have a clean criminal record and are awaiting trial, as if they were postal parcels to be placed in a warehouse , ignoring family members who have to face a long and expensive journey to go beyond the Tyrrhenian Sea".
«Then there is a question that the Head of the DAP must urgently address – concludes the representative of the association -. Inmates who are transferred cannot inform their family members before the Director of the destination penitentiary institution has checked their telephone numbers . A paradoxical circumstance . As if it hadn't already been verified and approved by the prison of origin. This means leaving family members in a state of anguish due to the sudden "disappearance" of their relative without any other benefit for the system. An unacceptable act of barbarism."
(Unioneonline/vf)
