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Rome, May 9, 2020 – Tonight’s Council of Ministers meeting, known from sources at Palazzo Chigi, has approved the release decree proposed by the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, It contains the rules to re-evaluate the measures taken for detainees, definitively sentenced or in preventive detention for serious mafia or terrorism offenses, regarding the emergence of the coronavirus.
The draft decree, seen by agencies before the CDM, provides a new evaluation of the supervising judges within fifteen days “from the adoption of the” house arrest “provision, and thereafter monthly “. An evaluation that could also be carried out immediately, even before the expiration of the terms “in the event that the Prison Administration Department communicates the availability of prison structures or protected medicine rooms appropriate to health conditions of the prisoner or inmate admitted to house arrest or to use the postponement of the sentence. ”
On the draft of the prison decree, which arrived at the CDM table tonight, it is clear that, if the conditions exist, the gangsters return to prison. The decree establishes “urgent measures with respect to house arrest or the postponement of the execution of the sentence, as well as the replacement of preventive detention in prison with the measure of house arrest, for reasons related to the health emergency of COVID- 19, of people detained or interned for organized crimes of the mafia, terrorist and mafia type, or for crimes of criminal association related to drug trafficking or for crimes committed using the conditions or to facilitate the association of the mafia, as well as prisoners and inmates subject to the regime provided for in article 41 bis “.
The document continues: “The provision by which the judicial authority revokes the house arrest or the postponement of the sentence is immediately required.” It is expected that “when he cannot decide on the state of the process,” the judge may order, “even ex officio and without formalities,” to control the health conditions of the accused “or make an expert report.”
The provisions apply to measures to replace the precautionary measure of custody in prison, with that of house arrest, “adopted after February 1, 2020.”
Bonafede: “Taking advantage of the emergency is an insult to the victims”
“We firmly reaffirm how committed the state is in the fight against the mafia. A commitment that we continue to pursue, in honor of the memory of those who have lost their lives and their affections for this reason, as well as for the future of our children, “these are the words of the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, after the approval of the decree of law. “No one can think of taking advantage of the medical emergency caused by the coronavirus to get out of prison. E ‘ an insult to the victims, to their families and to all citizens, who are also currently experiencing the many difficulties of the pandemic, “Bonafede continued, adding:” The magistrates apply the laws and, as always, I respect their autonomy and independence. Starting tonight, there is a new rule that gives order to the situation. In such an extraordinary moment it happened with old tools. But in extraordinary moments, they serve extraordinary measures “.
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