The tour of José Antonio Kast through Europe he lives his last hours. The leader of the Republican Party arrived in Spain last week to participate in the Europa Viva 24 summit, a meeting organized by the conservative party VOX. During his stay, he met with experts on immigration matters and held meetings with victims of the Basque terrorist organization ETA.
His visit to the old continent did not end in Madrid, since the Sunday night landed in Italy to continue with its activities, which have been marked by education and security agendas.
In Rome, Kast met with the Vice Minister of Education, Paola Frassinetti. The objective of this meeting was to address public policies in educational matters and gather background information on the educational model promoted by the prime minister and exponent of the Italian conservative world, Giorgia Meloni.
Kast’s presence in Italy coincides with the commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone (May 23, 1992), who persecuted the leaders of the Italian mafia and their illicit businesses. Falcone was murdered along with his wife and three bodyguards with 500 kilos of explosives on a highway near Palermo.
Kast not only visited the car in which Falcone was murdered, but was also in the Rome Penitentiary Center to know how the prison system works Italian.
Accompanied by the Penitentiary Police, similar to the Chilean Gendarmerie, Kast evidenced in the Training School of the Corpo di Polizia Penitenziaria How the “41-bis” regime works.
In Chile, the idea of the “41-bis” regime came in 2021 from the then director of the Gendarmerie, colonel Christian Alveal, who visited Italy to learn the details of this special regime. Alveal had warned about the formation of criminal groups such as the Tren de Aragua inside Chilean prisons.
However, Alveal’s proposals did not generate greater debate in Chile until now, with the exponential increase in crime.
Italy’s 41-bis regime
Kast and his entourage, including his party’s deputy Benjamin Moreno, they followed attentively the explanations about the “41-bis”. This article of the Italian penitentiary code allows the application of a special and restrictive prison regime for detainees considered highly dangerous. Introduced in 1992, initially as a temporary measure to combat organized crime, it has been renewed and extended several times.
The main objective of “41-bis” is prevent leaders of criminal organizations, such as the mafia, drug trafficking and terrorist groups, from continuing to direct their operations and communicating with their organizations from prison. The aim is to dismantle the operational capacity of these criminal networks by completely isolating their leaders.
For it, several special measures are implemented, such as total isolation. Inmates under this regime are kept in individual cells and separated from the rest of the prison population. Communications with the outside world are extremely limited. The Family visits are rare and always supervised, without physical contact and through safety glass. Communications with lawyers are also under strict surveillance.
All correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, is thoroughly reviewed by prison authorities. The prisoners do not have access to personal belongingsbooks, magazines or electronic devices without special authorization.
In addition, detainees are under constant surveillance, including security cameras in their cells and in the common areas they can use.
Human Rights Criticisms
He “41-bis” regime has been criticized by human rights organizationssuch as Amnesty International, who have described it as “cruel and degrading“. They argue that the severe conditions of isolation and extreme restrictions can constitute inhumane treatment. However, Italian authorities defend its effectiveness as an essential tool in the fight against organized crime and terrorism.
Criminal leaders
He “41-bis” does not apply to the entire prison population. Approximately 1.8% of detainees in Italy are subject to this regime. Your application It is decided case by casebased on the dangerousness of the detainee and his ability to influence criminal activities from prison.
The “41-bis” regime represents one of the most severe responses of the Italian penal system against the threat of organized crime, being an exceptional measure. aimed at protecting public safety by isolating the most dangerous criminals and organized.
