The Cuenca court has sentenced a contentious prisoner to 10 years in prison for attempted murder for stabbing one of the six Cuenca prison officers who went into the cell to reduce him, but without the appropriate material to defend you . The ruling insists that Cuenca prison “is not prepared to take dangerous prisoners” and that the prison only had adequate riot gear to protect two officers, leaving two with batons, two with helmets and two others, the first , went with shields. This made it easier for the inmate, according to the court, after destroying his cell, to attack and cut his neck a head of the central service, who entered the first row to the barrack’s bathroom, protected behind a shield.
The events date back to the night of October 27, 2021, when the aforementioned inmate Mohamed EM, with a long history of violent crimes, has been in jail in central Cuenca for barely a week, despite having previously been sentenced to three other prisons in Spain for injuries , threats, beatings, breach of sentence, robbery, robbery with violence and intimidation, degrading treatment, assault and sexual abuse… In fact, during his time in Estremera prison (Madrid), he was classified in the first degree for “his conflictualism and aggressiveness” and 11 restrictions were imposed on the prison life regime. In addition, in the prisons in which he was held (in addition to these Villena, Castellón and Valdemoro), he was punished for injury or resistance.
That night, the inmate was particularly aggressive, to the point that “the grievances of the other inmates multiplied because of the defendant’s bad behavior and because he wouldn’t leave them alone.” That morning he told an officer who had reprimanded him for tearing the sheets: “I’ll do what I want and no bastard will tell me what to do.” At night, he continued to destroy the cell, including the glass inside, leading to the decision to enter the dungeon where the prisoner could not be seen.
The six officers left after the anti-riot gear in the jail. But since there wasn’t enough for everyone, they divided it up. The first two left with a shield to stop the attack; the next two with a helmet (they were responsible for reducing it) and the two behind with a baton. They entered in pairs because they couldn’t fit through the door. Then the prisoner came out of his hiding place in the bathroom and shouted, “I’m going to kill you sons of bitches.” Using a glass like a knife, he cut the throat of the first of the officers who “blood flowed,” according to the verdict. It took 172 days to fully recover.
The First Section of the Cuenca Court emphasizes that in Cuenca prison there were two cells for dangerous prisoners that were not used for this inmate who was in an ordinary cell. The private prosecution was brought by the Acaip-UGT prison union, which even called for prisons to be held subsidiary to civil liability. The utmost the judges are doing is recognizing the inadequacy of the means to combat riots, the fact that he could have been committed to a more appropriate facility, and insisting that “Cuenca prison is not prepared to accept dangerous to take prisoners”.
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