"We are not the Cayenne of Italy. We don't want to be the island dump for Article 41bis . We want to be an island that takes responsibility but also takes a different path with respect to the prison issue."
Alessandra Todde stated this after Minister Nordio confirmed the plan to transfer prisoners under the 41 bis regime to the island . The governor emphasized that this is the position not only of the Region, but also of "parliamentarians, local authorities, and mayors." And if that's not enough, "we will use all available means to oppose this discriminatory decision."
Sardinia "is not the minister's personal prison," Todde attacks, calling for a change in the law that views islands as privileged areas for mafia bosses. "On the one hand, we have the insularity provision in the Constitution, which says we should be advantaged by being an island, and on the other, we have a 2009 law that says, since island areas should be, so to speak, privileged for this type of passage, we have this kind of discrimination ."
"To err is human, to persevere is diabolical," the president insists. "After the resignation of Undersecretary Delmastro, after the entire Sardinian political community has expressed its strong opposition to the operation that would transform Sardinia into Italy's Cayenne, after thousands of people took to the streets of Cagliari to demonstrate their opposition, after the worrying public reports from magistrates and professionals, after the words of the regional prison ombudsman, unions, trade associations, and civil society, after several parliamentary questions, despite the complaints about delays and errors in the work at Badu' and Carros, Uta, and Bancali, we are astonished to learn of Nordio's determination to continue in the wrong direction, continuing to ignore the involvement of local institutions."
