Officer suspended for threatening inmates in violence case

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 4 - A prison deputy inspector has been suspended for six months for obstructing justice after allegedly threatening and beating inmates to testify in his favour in a trial for violence inflicted on prisoners in a jail near Naples in 2020 to punish them for rioting, judicial sources said Friday.
    The officer, who was not named, was allegedly part of a brutal punitive raid in the prison at Santa Maria Capua Vetere near Caserta on April 6, 2020. (ANSA).