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January 22, 2021 An

honorary judge

, who has been on a hunger strike for 16 days to claim the category's honorary, welfare and social security rights,

passed out in the courtroom in the new Palace of Justice in Palermo

.

VG, 54, fell ill during a hearing in class 11. According to the statements of her colleagues, she is so weak that she slipped from her chair and collapsed to the ground.



The first to help her were lawyers and court employees.

Then the 118 medical staff intervened and measured her blood pressure, before giving her a drip, and then they took her to the hospital.

The judge, together with her colleague Sabrina Argiolas, had already started it in December

hunger strike as an extreme and peaceful form of demand to draw the attention of the state to the claims of honorary magistrates

.



Since the beginning of last December, in fact, the honorary magistrates - deputy prosecutors, honorary judges and justices of the peace - have protested to underline their condition of "precarious justice",

paid at court, without social security contributions, holidays, sickness and maternity

.

Several flash mobs organized in front of the Palermo court.

An initiative then extended to other Italian cities as well.