Almost all the newspapers were wrong to write the name on the day after his death on December 18, 2009 in the prison Castrogno Abruzzo, Teramo. Let alone those who may remember him today, nearly a month later, and would know to write and pronounce the generality.
In Italian prisons continue to die more than in any other European country - in the first ten days of the year already four deaths, two of them suicide by hanging - and there seems to be neither time nor desire to rebuild her life and especially the death of Uzoma Emeka, 34, Obodoluwu Nigerian, resident in Martock, province of Teramo, and father of two children, a boy of four years and a girl of ten months.
But the story of Emeka Uzoma, over the newspapers because it was suspected, without any foundation, that the boy was been the victim of a beating by prison officers of Castrogno, is terrible for its ordinariness, and must reflect upon why is not the exception but the rule of the Italian prison life, even for the manner in which the grotesque "dirty laundry" Prison Teramo have flown beyond the walls.
Hill overlooking Castrogno Teramo gives its name to the prison and is a front row seat to enjoy the spectacle of the white peaks of the Gran Sasso. An image that you forget as soon as you cross the threshold of the prison.
A prison Castrogno of this - and this is the first item of concern "ordinariness" - which is not worse or better than many other national prisons. Cells and damp mattresses, heating and hot water every other day and four no, the floor always dirty even after washing, because it is concrete and remove the dirt is futile undertaking. A prison is short enough that sucks, but that is part of "crap media" of the Great Prison Italy, contemporary version of the Ottoman Court of Hell, the prison in Istanbul told by Ivo Andric.
Our "Court of the Devil", from the Alps to Sicily, should receive no more than quarantremila prisoners. Instead it contains sixty-six thousand.
Castrogno, says the new commander of the prison officers, Sabatino De Bellis, is a medium security prison, which would accommodate 230 prisoners, and instead has 400. But that is not worse than the prison of Bologna, for example, comes from where De Bellis, as the shortage of staff in Teramo (191 agents instead of the expected 203) is 8 percent, while in Bologna is 37 percent. And the number of dead there are worse. It 's true that in Teramo, there were 12 deaths in a single year, in 1991. But in nearby Sulmona there were 15 in the last ten years, and all suicides, including the director, Armida Miserere, which he shot himself in the mouth April 19, 2003 for an unspecified form of diagnosed depression.
Uzoma Emeka was serving a term of two years and ten months for drug dealing. Heroin. He had been arrested June 27, 2008. Caught red-handed, with two ounces of "stuff" and a blender to cut the drug and "stretched".
boy always smiling, even friendly and always willing to help other inmates, prison officials say about him. It had to be so, if the magistrate's supervision of Pescara had already recognized a discount of sentence of ninety days for good conduct and a possible prize promised by Christmas. Very important things for an inmate, because they can get him the transformation of imprisonment in home detention, which would Uzoma already taken in February.
Uzoma had landed in Italy to work, says his lawyer Julius Lazarus, and working odd jobs, casual and low paid, it has made so many. But after the expiration of the permit, according to the rules of law "Bossi-Fini" should clear off. He already had two children, a companion - Loveth Omorodion, 33, also a Nigerian, but in Benin City - and so decided to take the plunge and started to sell drugs.
Nobody wants to justify the unfortunate choice of Uzoma. If it is right that selling drugs was arrested and convicted. But the "death sentence" even if the form "indirect" for not having taken care of him until he let it die, no. This outcome can not be justified even by the overcrowding and the hard life that the walls of the "Court of the Devil" also allotted to the guards. On 18 December
Uzoma Emeka passed out and no longer has opened my eyes. When they rescue was too late. Civil Hospital of Teramo, Uzoma arrived corpse. Yet, they were already fifteen days Uzoma was bad, very bad indeed. The last time I went to see Loveth girlfriend was six days before his death, December 12. Loveth left shaken by the encounter. For two reasons. The first, the health status of Uzoma: do not stand on his feet and carried him off the cuff. The second, sussurratele few words from her man, who would be afraid to confide in prison because he had seen "something bad". What he saw
Uzoma? He had seen a guard stepping on a detainee, Sept. 22. And how do we know about this beating (or, as agents say, this "reaction" of the guard assault by the prisoner)? We know this thanks to the registration of a rather animated discussion between the former commander of the agents, Giuseppe Luzi (now suspended from the DAP, the Prison Administration Department) and his subordinates, which occurred three days later, on Sept. 25. The recording, on CD-ROM with an accompanying letter apparently written by an anonymous prisoner, was sent to the newspaper of Teramo, "The City", which has published all of course, by blowing up the scandal, with its opening of a judicial inquiry.
In this interview, the commander Luzi gets angry: "We risked a revolt exceptional," said Luzi. And then, turning to an agent who says he knew nothing about it: "Why, Micacchioni, only you do not know what happened? Do not you know that has brought him a prisoner in section? But if everyone knows. " And that: "I was not there. I know nothing. " Luzi then utters the phrase that he claimed the suspension. "In the section - he says - not a prisoner massacres. It slaughters below. " He added: "We risked a revolt because the Negro has seen it all ...."
that "black" was Emeka Uzoma. That's why the first, terrible, but justified suspicion, Uzoma when he died, was that anyone could have done outside of what he had seen. Then make sure that the autopsy Uzoma died of a brain tumor el'atroce suspicion, fortunately, will fade away. But with Uzoma is gone also witnessed the beating, or "lite", which according to Luzi was not to happen, or rather should not be in front of other prisoners, because "he could to spark a revolt exceptional. " And the fact that Uzoma is dead, let's face it, has quieted the minds of all those who might fear the story of an inconvenient witness.
were saying but also grotesque appearance of this tragic event. Uzoma of liquidation would have read only two lines in the press agencies, the Teramo prison if they had not turned the spotlight because of that record - it must be said - galley. Registration and anonymous letter, however - what it results immediately evident - it was not a convict to pack. It 'been a penitentiary agent. And not for a surge of conscience. But for revenge. The prison guard who has recorded the words of the slain commander Luzi Luzi did so only because he would not be "protected." More specifically: the anonymous officer had an affair with a colleague, and their story was to be held inside the prison, including a pause and a change of shift. Another staff member would be sent from prison, a letter to the woman's husband, revealing everything with plenty of details and creating a prison case, yes, but "red light".
What does all this in the master Luzi? According to the agent anonymous, Luzi was to prevent the letter came out from jail. He had to "filter", as you do with all the correspondence of prisoners and screen so he and fellow lover. Especially as they say in prison, Luzi first time he had seen a similar story, again within the same structure, with a colleague, who later became his second wife, and then had to show special "understanding" for the two guards As lovers ...
reasoning is delusional, but as a motive is deadly.
Uzoma But then, "the black man who had seen everything," dies and the recording is completed in the newspapers is even more disturbing. And so the investigation of the prosecutor David Mancini on Luzi and five other officers for the beating, he immediately joins another, led by prosecutor Robert D'Avolio , For the death of Uzoma Emeka. And yes, because the case is far from closed.
Uzoma before he died, was ill for days. But not because, as we have also suggested, was a drug addict. It was not. Or why was following antidepressant therapy with use of psychotropic drugs. He had no such problems. The truth is that when Uzoma began to feel ill - dizziness, severe headaches, vomiting, fainting - the only things that have been made for him are those that "normally" you are all prisoners in all prisons: Exemption from work if you are "workers" (and Uzoma was), transfer cell, and then tablets on tablets (depression, anxiety, calming) as a universal remedy for any disease.
Every prisoner, and therefore Uzoma, has a biographical directory in which is recorded all that makes a prisoner, even the smallest of matters. This folder is or should be, what the "black box" is for a plane. The
your personal Uzoma was seized by prosecutor D'Avolio and certainly will - it would be very serious if not - the reasons that caused the exemption from the work of Uzoma and his change of cell. Uzoma And because he felt ill, it is reasonable and logical to think that the reasoning regarding their state of health. The point is, with what diagnosis? Because if it was discovered that Uzoma had a brain tumor until after the autopsy in prison means that there is not a Castrogno mediconzolo able to interpret those symptoms as well as so many obvious red flags to provide urgently at least a CAT scan.
Instead, the first rumors on the contents of the folder of biographical Uzoma transpires that the boy would have had alcohol poisoning. Strange. During meals is not allowed more than one glass of wine. Do not be intoxicated with a glass of wine. Unless you want to say that someone has passed Uzoma a bottle of whiskey ... But that would be even more "Ordinary" negligence, it would mean that not only Uzoma was not controlled, not only was left to itself, but also would have been done to anesthetize drunk, as was done with the Indians confined to reservations.
So, waiting for parliaments and governments, strengthen the alternative measures to imprisonment, and improve the "law Gozzini," let us ask ourselves: is there a real and immediate outlet for the story of an ordinary prison abandonment of Uzoma Emeka? Yes, there is. And it is simply the pursuit of a just and ordinary justice.
Article by Charles Vulpio
Taken from the 10/01/10
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