Do you remember "Midnight Express" (Midnight Express) by Alan Parker?
this:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuga_di_mezzanotte
thought that these things could happen only in countries like Turkey or 70 years of Pinochet's Chile ... where the fuck we live?
article by Adriano Sofri:
MEMORY
Thursday, October 15, 2009 At about 23:30
Stefano Cucchi was stopped by police in the park of the aqueducts in Rome.
Friday, October 16 at 1:30 am in the morning they arise, with Stephen, at the home of the family Cucchi in Via Ciro da Urbino, two men in civilian clothes, then had qualified as a police and two other policemen in uniform in the barracks Appia Claudio. They begin to search the room of Stephen while he reassures his mother telling her "quiet, so they do not find anything." In fact, anything found in his room, refusing to search the rest of the study and, even after an invitation from the family to proceed. The police in turn reassure family members, saying that Stephen was a little surprised with "stuff" on him (20 gr. Mainly marijuana, cocaine and two little pills, according to news filtered through areas of law enforcement and prosecutors, " ecstasy "second father" of Rivotril, "a life-saving medicine epilepsy, prescrittogli regularly by your doctor). The police also stated that the next day would be celebrated at 9 am for summary trial in the courtrooms of Piazzale Clodius. At about 12 o'clock in the morning Stefano arrives in the courtroom, escorted by four policemen. Her face is very swollen, in striking contrast to its thinness (the parents say that his weight before his arrest is about 43 kg) and has very showy bruising around the eyes. During interrogation by the court, pleads guilty to "possession of drugs, but as a consumer." Stephen at nearly 13 is led away, handcuffed, by police, after the ruling of trial (hearing scheduled for November 13th) with a remand prison. At 14 is at the clinic visited the Palace of Justice, where are found "injury ecchimodiche lower eyelid bilaterally in the region and where Stephen says" injury to the sacral region and lower limbs. The police then led him to Regina Coeli prison in the custody of the police. On entering the prison will undergo a medical examination which reveals the presence of "coccygeal sacral bruising, swelling of the face bilateral orbital, algia gait." Fatebenefratelli is then transported to hospital for further controls: in particular, back and skull X-rays, which are not made at that time inside the prison. In the hospital diagnosed "the L3 vertebral body fracture and a fracture of his left dell'emisoma coccygeal vertebra.
Saturday, October 17th During the morning is again visited by two doctors of Regina Coeli, where it will again have to be transferred to Fatebenefratelli. Hence, during the morning (13.15 hours), Sandro Pertini is transferred to the hospital. The family is notified of the admission of Stephen at only 21. At approximately 22 parents present to the emergency room and are directed to the "hall detainees." The stem will be asked if you can see the patient, but the answer that is given to families is: "This is a prison and the visits are not possible." To the precise question put to him by his parents, how is Stephen Cucchi? The column makes them wait and then invite them to return the following Monday (from 12 to 14), to speak with the doctors. Monday, October 19
Parents traveling at 12 am in Hall held the steering column and repeat the request to visit Stephen. Shall be seated in the vestibule, the documents are taken and pending a superintendent to ask just out of the department which is the health of the child. The superintendent's response is: "The boy is quiet, but again denied parents the opportunity to interview the doctors on the ground that the authorization of the prison has not yet arrived. And in the face of parents who want to specify only talk to the doctors, and do not even have a conversation with his son, the same supervisor asks them to reappear the next day, stating that permission for the following day would surely arrived.
Tuesday, October 20 At 12 the parents go back to "Pertini", repeating the request to the stem to visit Stephen. This time the column deny them entry, saying - and is the first time it is said explicitly - that "both for interviews with detainees and for those with the doctors should ask permission of a Judge of the Court Square Clodius."
Wednesday, October 21 At 12:30, the father of Stephen, after a morning spent in court, he obtained permission of the Judge of the seventh section for interviews. He decides not to go to Regina Coeli visit to get a permit because the relevant office closes at 12.45 pm, referring everything to the next day. Thursday, October 22
Stefano Cucchi dies at 6:20 in the morning. The medical certificate issued by the hospitals and clinics speaks of 'presumed natural death'. At 12:10 pm a policeman comes to your home Cucchi, finding only the mother of the boy, his father having gone to Regina Coeli for the visa, and ask them to follow him to the police station for communications. The lady can not, being alone with her grandchild, and so the policeman said that he would return later. At 12.30 am the mother of Stephen is notified of the decree authorizing pm with the appointment of a consultant of the parties. It is in this way that Mrs. Cucchi learns of his son's death. Both parents are traveling to Pertini, where the superintendent and the doctor on duty say they "have not been able to see his face because it was constantly on the sheet face." Then rushed to the morgue of the Institute of Medicine office where they presented their shocking image: the face of her son devastated, almost completely swollen, the right eye returned to the bottom of the orbit, the left eyebrow in abnormally swollen, the right jaw with a groove vertical, indicate a fracture, the teeth ruined. Friday, October 23
is carried out the autopsy. Part of the consultant appointed by the family, is not allowed to take photographs. The body of Stephen Cucchi
now weighs 37 kg (Adriano Sofri)
