Palermo, two officers attacked at Ucciardone
by Editorial Staff

April 24, 2025

Two prison police officers were attacked and threatened in the Ucciardone prison in Palermo. This was reported by the national secretary of the CNPP union Maurizio Mezzatesta. One attack occurred in the ninth section and one in the eighth. The officers were taken to the emergency room at Villa Sofia. The prognosis is 7 and 5 days. "We are tired of counting the injured, all we do is archive episodes of violence and threats against staff and various critical events, which then recur with other episodes of extreme violence, added to the disproportionate workloads - adds Mezzatesta - and the disproportionate use of overtime, failing to comply with what is provided for in the national framework agreement. Overtime that is imposed and which in turn is not paid regularly and at the same time not beyond a set number of hours. The staff is tired, has been waiting for concrete and timely interventions for a long time that are slow in arriving and presumably the staff is waiting for another copy-paste summer of the previous ones. I express my utmost solidarity with the injured staff".