“The idea of letting citizens know how we don’t let those behind that darkened glass breathe is an intimate joy for me.” The words of the Undersecretary for Justice cause discussion Andrea Delmastro. “Resign,” attacks the former prime minister Matteo Renzi. Italia Viva announces a motion of censure.
The occasion is the presentation of the new armored car with detention cell that the Department of Penitentiary Administration had built for the transport of prisoners under the 41-bis and high security regime.
Greeted by the guard of honour, in the square in front of the entrance to the Dap, Bravetta district, north-west quadrant of Rome, the deputy of Fratelli d’Italia, who has responsibility for the prison department in the government, does not hide his satisfaction with the “increasingly technological” vehicle equipment, thanks to which, “the prison police are increasingly on the front line in the fight against organized crime”.
In fact, ‘Gnewsonline’, the web newsletter of the ministry in via Arenula, reports the 36 new SsangYong Rexton Dream e-XDi220 they feature “3 cameras inside the cockpit that send the images back to two monitors, the automatic and timed locking of the detention cell, locks handcuffs, locks doors and locks weapons manageable from the console”, as well as “continuous geolocalization with the possibility of transmitting specific alert to the operations center, internal and external video recording systems, a perimeter alarm and an audio system to communicate with the outside of the vehicle”.
“The idea of seeing this powerful vehicle parade – said Andrea Delmastro among other things during the presentation on November 13th – to let citizens know how we know how to treat those behind that darkened glass, how we harass those behind that glass darkened, as we do not let those behind that darkened glass breathe, it is an intimate joy for the undersigned”.
Delmastro’s merciless words also sound at least in contradiction with what was reported by the ministry, which in presenting the new car underlines the attention towards respecting the rights of prisoners: “The detention cell was also created with ergonomic criteria to guarantee the greater comfort and safety of all occupants, in compliance with European parameters on inhuman and degrading treatments”.
According to the Ristretti dossier “Dying in prison”, updated on 6 November, deaths in penal institutions amount to 213, of which 80 are suicides.
The political controversy
Leader Iv responds, after having seen and shared the video of the ceremony on social media, saying that “the day when Undersecretary Delmastro is ashamed will be too late anyway. But in the meantime, let him resign. Now”. “These are shameful, horrible words, unworthy of a man who should respect the Constitution and the rule of law”, concludes Renzi.
He also attacks the Democratic Party. The deputy Matteo Orfini he asks that “someone in the government distances himself” from Delmastro. Angelo Bonelli of the Left Green Alliance defines his words as “unworthy”. “From a South American regime,” he adds Riccardo Magi+Europa.
“A man prey to these delusions of a sadistic butcher cannot be an undersecretary of justice. He believes he is in Pinochet’s Chile. Delmastro out of the republican institutions!”. Thus the Anpi on X.
“Delmastro’s words in presenting the vehicles for the transfer of mafiosi and terrorists to a hard prison regime have the very clear meaning of not giving respite and breathing space to the mafiosi under 41 bis and therefore to organized crime as a whole. The left raises surreal controversies to once again try to pollute the political debate to weaken the Meloni government’s defense of 41 bis”. The deputy and organization manager of Fratelli d’Italia wrote it in a note, Giovanni Donzelli.
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