Kicking and slapping an inmate while he was on the floor in his cell held in lockdown by other officers.


"They allegedly" tortured "a 41-year-old inmate" for a period of 4 minutes ": 15 suspects, 3 arrests and 6 suspensions for the prison police. 


The Bari prosecutor issues a precautionary measure order for alleged violence, assuming the the crime of "

torture in competition

".


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Prison

The investigation

, launched after a report by the Directorate and Command of the Penitentiary Police of Bari, referring to an event that took place on April 27 last.

The recipients of the precautionary measures - writes the judge for preliminary investigations - on duty at the various sections of the prison, "after an intervention in a detention cell, raged with multiple violent conduct that took place over a period of about four minutes, against a 41-year-old inmate ".

"Kicks and slaps while they kept him stuck on the floor"


According to the Carabinieri, the staff of the prison police, in transferring the prisoner to the hospital's medical center, allegedly carried out acts of violence: "by some, in kicking and slaps and, by others, in holding the

prisoner stuck on the floor on which he was lying, with the omissive participation of other agents

who attended the acts of violence without preventing them ".

Carabinieri: no reports of injuries from the infirmary


According to the prosecution - moreover - "no injuries to the detainee were reported", who was immediately hospitalized in the infirmary of the detention facility.


"During the entire investigation, the collaboration offered by the Direction of the Penitentiary Institute and the Command of the Penitentiary Police was constant", underline the soldiers who reiterated: "the procedure is in the preliminary investigation phase and that, the execution of today's measure will be followed by the interrogation of guarantee and the confrontation with the defense of the suspects, whose possible guilt, in relation to the alleged offenses, must be ascertained during the trial in the cross-examination between the parties ".