"My action is due to the total inadequacy that incredibly still persists in certain institutions, such as workhouses, which should aim to re-socialize and reintegrate people through work," but which "in reality are a holding tank for those with psychiatric problems and who have no room in the residences to carry out security measures."

Thus Elia Del Grande , the 50-year-old from Cadrezzate (Varese) who killed his family in 1998 and who in recent days, after serving over 25 years in prison and being sent to a workhouse in Emilia, has gone missing and is therefore now a wanted man.

Del Grande sent by email u na letter to the local newspaper Varese News, to explain the reasons for his departure.

According to rumours reported by Resto del Carlino, it would be found in a secret location together with his partner, a woman of Sardinian origin , who had visited him shortly before his escape (and for this reason the searches were also concentrated on the island) .

"I found myself," Del Grande continues, "dealing every day with people with serious psychiatric illnesses . The therapy, clearly psychotropic drugs, is administered in massive doses to anyone without any problems. The existing work environment is identical to that of prison regimes. Workhouses today are fully-fledged prisons, with bars, gates, and prison police, regular hours, rules, and duties. With the small difference that those subjected to workhouses are not prisoners, but inmates—that is, neither prisoners nor free."

Again, Del Grande continues, "I had taken my life back into my own hands, obtaining an excellent job with sacrifice, giving my all to that job that today they made me lose without the slightest scruples, I am referring to the surveillance magistrate. I had found a companion, a balance, lunches, dinners, paying bills, the rules of society, all of this vanished into thin air due to the decision of a surveillance magistrate, who locked me up again, making me take at least a thousand steps backwards, only proposing to me the repressive reality of prison. In fact, that of the workhouses is much worse . There are people inside who were held for six months and whose only crime is not having a home and a family, they have been interned for 4/5 years, in a civilized country that is in step with European regulations. This should no longer exist, in fact, Italy is the only country in all of Europe that adopts security measures."

"I want to clarify," the letter continues, "that I was sentenced to 30 years in prison in this country. I actually served 26 years and 4 months, and I wasn't sentenced to any additional prison time. Yet, thanks to this article of law dating back to Mussolini, still in force in our penal code, I once again found myself worse than a prisoner . I saw my world collapse around me, I saw everything lost, I saw my work commitments ignored, I saw my two-and-a-half-year reintegration process from my release ignored. Today, all the news reports describe me as a serial killer, a mad murderer who escaped without the slightest hesitation or restraint, blaming me for everything from my past without first finding out what I've done since my release on July 16, 2023. This and much more drove me to try everything to escape that situation to which I absolutely couldn't get used."

Del Grande concludes by explaining that his "is not a tax evasion and there is no criminal prosecution, but rather a simple absence. However, I am likely still paying a heavy price for my name and what I did. I am saddened because it will mean that no matter what punishment one may pay in this country, you will always remain responsible for the act committed."

(Unioneonline)

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