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17 June 2020Stop of the circular with which, on 21 March last, reports were made of cases of detainees who, due to diseases or age, were at greater risk in the case of contagion from coronavirus, believed to be the basis of release, also of inmates in high security and 41 bis, which occurred in the past few weeks. It is the decision taken by the leaders of the Dap with a note, which bears yesterday's date, sent to the regional administrators of the penitentiary administration. A document, the one signed by Bernardo Petralia and his deputy Roberto Tartaglia, which recalls the " constant decrease "cases of contagion in prison - yesterday's figure speaks of 66 positives on a prison population of about 53 thousand people - the protocols and legislative measures adopted to contain Covid risk, while reiterating the need for" monitoring "of health detainees, especially the most critical situations.

The new measure of the Dap arrived in the same hours in which the controversy about the release from prison and the circular of March 21st returned to the center of the investigation launched by the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission which yesterday summoned Giulio Romano, former prison inmate and treatment of the Dap - he resigned in the following weeks following, he explained himself, of the "clamor about release" and waiting to return to the role of the general prosecutor of the Cassation - who said that on the circular he had had "the assent "of the then chief Dap Francesco Basentini (who left the post after the controversy) and that the same Guardasigilli Alfonso Bonafede, on a date after March 26, had expressed, during a videoconference, his" appreciation ". 

Romano: "Zagaria released from my office, a serious mistake"
Romano, in his hearing yesterday, also retraced, in particular, the case of Pasquale Zagaria, the Casalesi boss who, from 41 bis, obtained home detention for related reasons to his health and risk Covid: "It was a serious mistake by my office," said Romano, speaking of a problem in the email communication between the Dap and the Sassari surveillance judges. Unlike other bosses, Zagaria did not return to his cell due to the effects of the 'anti-imprisonment' dictated by Bonafede and on which the Senate is called today to cast a vote of confidence and the CSM will give its opinion: the proceedings they concern him, in fact, were sent to the Consulta for the examination of the constitutionality of the decree.

Antimafia hears Nino Di Matteo tomorrow
Romano's declarations have left the president of the Antimafia Commission Nicola Morra "amazed", who has already scheduled for tonight the continuation of the hearing of the former director Dap. In Antimafia, Sebastiano Ardita is expected this afternoon, toga of the CSM and in the past director of prisoners and treatment of the prison administration, while tomorrow Nino Di Matteo will be heard, ex pm of the negotiation process and now toga at Palazzo dei Marescialli, who is He was the protagonist, at the beginning of May, of a 'clash' on live TV with the minister Bonafede on his non-appointment to lead the Dap in June 2018, when the choice of the Guardasigilli eventually fell on Basentini.

Catello Maresca: "Well Dap, but more courage was needed"
The Dap circular of 21 March last "should not be suspended, it should be canceled, in respect of the relatives of the victims of the mafia". The deputy attorney general of Naples, Catello Maresca, immediately extremely critical with a measure that in fact allowed the release of prisoners at 41 bis or in high security because they were considered at risk of complications in the event of contagion from Covid 19. The suspension "is a first step "to correct the shot," but you had to be more courageous ".

"It was necessary to distance oneself from that provision - he explains - also by affirming a principle opposite to what was contained therein, and that is that the Dap was able to manage the Covid emergency". "I do not explain why it was not done - adds Maresca - since this note is signed by the heads of the department, the chief and the deputy chief. It is as if the mountain had given birth to a mouse. I do not understand the reason to suspend the effectiveness of the note of March 21 as if it were no longer useful, creating the misunderstanding that it is a measure to be resumed or reapplied if there is a coronavirus emergency again ". "However - he concludes - finally, albeit in a non-explicit form, there is the finding that that note was wrong, two and a half months after its issue".