The "Noli me Tollere" rest home in Sorso was seized after checks by the carabinieri on alleged ill-treatment of the elderly guests of the facility. The military of the Nas of Sassari have also triggered the ban on the exercise of certain professional or entrepreneurial activities against two people for 12 months.

Last Saturday the Nas blitz together with the carabinieri of the Sorso station, at the end of a long investigation carried out by the carabinieri themselves.

Through observation services and technical activities, the investigators unearthed systematic and continuous harassment of the elderly. There are also a couple of suspicious deaths. The elderly guests were threatened, insulted, beaten, even immobilized, tied to wheelchairs, and in any case kept in conditions that were certainly not suited to their needs.

Furthermore, several structural malfunctions and serious hygienic deficiencies would have been ascertained in the structure.

(Unioneonline/L)

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