The request for house arrest rejected, Salvatore Deledda remains in prison, the 38-year-old prison officer from Siniscola arrested last Monday for corruption and the illegal introduction of cell phones into the Nuoro prison of Badu 'e Carros from which the Apulian boss escaped on 24 February Marco Raduano, lowering himself with the sheets from the surrounding wall.
Deledda was supposed to be on duty in the sentry box that day but, it emerged from the investigations, he was absent due to illness.
Returning to the investigation into the mobile phones, the policeman did not answer the questions of the investigating judge of Nuoro Giacomo Ferrando, he only issued a spontaneous statement in which he defended himself by proclaiming his innocence .
Carmela Mele , 45, Neapolitan, sister of Vincenzo, a high-security prisoner like Raduano, and Giuseppe, nicknamed "o' cacaglio", head of the clan of the same name in the Pianura district of the Neapolitan capital, had also been arrested with him.
According to the investigators , she was the one who sent the parcels containing the mobile phones to the inmates, and to do so she used Deledda for a reward of 1,450 euros . Almost all the phones - now seized - had arrived in Vincenzo Mele's cell.
The Nuoro prosecutor's investigation into the two arrests runs parallel to that of the Cagliari DDA into the Raduano escape , but it was opened 5 months before the boss's escape. The investigation, coordinated by prosecutor Andrea Ghironi, would have been triggered by the former commander of the Penitentiary Police of the Nuoro prison, Francesco Dessì, who was replaced immediately after the escape.
(Unioneonline/L)