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Italian Carabinieri station in Piacenza shut over torture claims

by editor July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020

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Four of the suspects were pictured in this handout from Italy’s financial police corps

A group of Carabinieri military police have been arrested and their police station closed after investigators uncovered a raft of alleged crimes taking place in the barracks.

The Carabinieri in the northern city of Piacenza are suspected of drug-trafficking, blackmail and torture.

The case has shocked prosecutors and residents in the northern Italian city.

“We are untouchable,” one of the suspects is alleged to have told a colleague on a police wiretap.

Accounts of the team’s exploits were front-page news in Italy on Thursday, and local prosecutor Grazia Pradella said “nothing that went on in that barracks was legal – they were out-and-out criminals”.

The allegations read like the pages of a crime novel, and many of the offences took place in the weeks when Italy went into pandemic lockdown, even though the police operation began in 2017.

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One picture showed a man who had clearly been mistreated in custody

“While the city of Piacenza was counting so many coronavirus deaths, these Carabinieri supplied drugs to the drug dealers who were stuck at home without drugs under anti-Covid rules,” the prosecutor said. Piacenza is in the northern region of Emilia Romagna and suffered one of the highest death rates in Italy.

She compared what went on at the barracks to the practices of organised crime syndicates.

Suspects who were brought in for questioning were mistreated and even tortured. One photo released to the media showed a detainee in handcuffs and bare feet with a bloody nose.

The prosecutor said Carabinieri in the Levante barracks were suspected of drug dealing, receiving stolen property, extortion, illegal arrest, embezzlement and abuse of office. While 12 people were under investigation, five people were detained and a sixth placed under house arrest.

The revelations risked tarnishing the image of 110,000 men and women who did their best every day to uphold the values of the paramilitary force, Italy’s defence minister said.

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