Overview
- The inspector, Elena Viligiardi, received a sentence of 5 years and 4 months, while eight officers were given terms ranging from 3 years and 4 months to 4 years and 4 months.
- The court held the defendants responsible at various levels for torture, calunnia and false reporting in an abbreviated proceeding.
- The convictions cover two assaults inside Sollicciano in 2018 and 2020 in which one detainee suffered a perforated eardrum and another sustained two broken ribs, with one victim forced to strip in isolation as humiliation.
- Judges reversed a first-instance ruling that had reclassified torture as bodily injury and had dropped the falsehood and calunnia counts.
- The panel ordered immediately executable provisionals: €40,000 in total to the two detainees, plus additional sums to the Justice Ministry, the association Altro Diritto and the national detainees’ ombudsman.