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Ten prison guards at a correctional facility in Reggio Emilia, a city in northern Italy, were charged with torturing and beating a detainee of Tunisian origin in April, local justice said on Thursday.
“The guards were relieved of their duties after being charged with torture, bodily harm to a detainee, and concealment of the facts,” the local prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“Kicks and Punches”
The investigation, which focused on 14 suspects, was opened after the complaint of a detainee, described as a man of Tunisian origin, relating to events that occurred on April 3.
“The detainee had been forced to lie on the ground, his head covered with a pillowcase, and had been kicked and kicked in the face and body”, said prosecutor Gaetano Calogero Paci, quoted by local media.
Placed in solitary confinement, the detainee had broken a sink and used a fragment to lacerate himself, obtaining the arrival of a doctor, according to the media. CCTV enabled the suspects to be identified, sources said.
