For some days the boss Raffaele Cutolo has been hospitalized in the Parma hospital in the ward for prisoners. The 79-year-old 'professor' of Ottaviano was urgently transferred from the prison infirmary for an aggravation of his condition, for a respiratory crisis and for a clinical picture that was unbalanced compared to other serious diseases such as diabetes. The news of Cutolo's transfer to the hospital, which appears today in the Neapolitan newspaper 'Il Mattino', was communicated only yesterday to the family members and to the lawyer of the boss detained under the 41 bis regime, the lawyer Gaetano Aufiero. "Even on the health conditions - says the lawyer - the news is very sparse and is transmitted late".
Raffaele Cutolo has been in several penitentiaries in his 42 years of imprisonment under the 41 bis regime. For some years he has been detained in Parma and from there on 19 February last, due to a respiratory crisis, he was urgently taken to hospital in Parma. He is diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, which also worsens other conditions, such as diabetes and urinary tract dysfunction.