A prisoner makes a gap within the wall of his cell within the Lleida jail to assault one other inmate within the adjoining cell | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

A prisoner from the Lleida penitentiary heart has managed to punch a gap within the wall of his cell to assault the inmate who was occupying it, with whom he was having an argument. The occasion, as sources from the Department of Justice have defined to EFE, passed off round ten o'clock at evening on Saturday, when inmate RGR managed to tear off the radiator in his room and with one of many items make a gap to speak with the adjoining cell, which was occupied by prisoner MAM, with whom he was having an argument.

The jail officers heard the blows and screams among the many prisoners and approached the cell space, the place, in accordance with the CSIF union in a press release, the inmate who was carrying a chunk of iron additionally threatened them. Given this example, an inner intervention group was activated that managed to cut back the prisoner though a number of of the officers needed to be handled for minor bruises, in accordance with the union.

The prisoner was transferred to the Arnau de Vilanova hospital in Lleida, as he had accidents to his palms, though he refused to obtain medical help, so he returned to the penitentiary focus on two-thirty within the morning.

The union factors out that this incident demonstrates “the lack of investments in passive security in the Lleida prison as well as the deplorable state of this infrastructure, where public workers have to carry out their work.” The union heart, which along with different unions has been in battle with the Department of Justice for weeks over the protection of officers in prisons, affirms that the Catalan penitentiary system “is leaking due to the professional incompetence” of these accountable for it. .

“How is it possible that after years of reporting, by CSIF, about the state of the cells of the special department, we find that an inmate can rip out the radiator and destroy the cell?” asks the union, who additionally questions whether it is vital for officers to place their lives in danger “to subdue an extremely violent inmate without being able to use spray of adequate action provided by law” or use units that stun, akin to Taser electrical weapons.

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