The story relating to the death of Maria Teresa Found Mazza, Sissy, the 28-year-old penitentiary police officer, originally from Taurianova, whose body was found in a lake of blood, on November 1st 2016, in an elevator of the Venice hospital (where she had visited a prisoner), with a bullet that had pierced her skull.
In the autumn of 2019 the Prosecutor asked for the investigation to be closed, claiming that it was a suicide and that there is no mystery to be clarified (the death of the young woman occurred on January 12, 2019, after two years of ordeal). But, last January, a prisoner from Giudecca prison revealed to the then commander of the prison police, some episodes to her knowledge indicating a colleague of Sissy as possible responsible for the killing, on mandate from senior prison leaders.
Drug and love between inmates and agents
All because the 28-year-old would have been considered one uncomfortable presence, in the light of the repeated reports presented to superiors on drug spins in the cells, but also and above all on romantic (and sexual) relationships between inmates and custodial agents.
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Since then the prosecutor Elisabetta Spigarelli has carried out a series of investigations in search of any confirmations and findings, without finding them, and the prisoner ended up under accusation for the crime of slander for accusing the penitentiary police officer of murder while knowing her innocent. The woman has already been questioned in the presence of her defender, the lawyer Mauro Serpico, and explained that she did not want to accuse anyone, merely reporting events to her knowledge. The prosecutor has already asked for his indictment: among the things to be clarified at the trial is why the prisoner decided to make her revelations more than two years after the fact. In the meantime, she was released from prison thanks to some permits.
That letter of complaint from Sissy: “Serious facts, my colleagues …”
From the inmate’s story comes a dark picture of what would have happened inside the Venetian female penitentiary, characterized by strong tensions between various prison agents due to jealousies for romantic relationships with each other and with inmates. Sissy would have been frowned upon for the repeated reports submitted to high school, which, however, would have had no follow-up.
Sissy pounded by her colleague: the bruises
The inmate, now accused of slander, claims to have received confidences from Sissy, but also from other agents, and reports that she has witnessed several episodes that led her to make the report ended under accusation. On one occasion she listened to the guard she indicated as the possible assassin, saying to a colleague: “I’ll take care of Sissy.” Subsequently Sissy returned to Giudecca with some bruises and told her that she had been beaten by her colleague and her friend. On November 1, 2016, that same guard would return to shocked prison. And, on a subsequent occasion, she would kneel in front of the prisoner begging her not to tell anything she knew.
Trap for the alleged murderer
Last January, after collecting the report, the Giudecca commander organized a sort of trap: the prisoner was sent to speak with the offending agent in the hope that he could induce her to confess, while two other guards overheard from behind a door. The alleged culprit, cornered by the inmate, began to cry, declaring that she could no longer sleep after Sissy died and pondered suicide. For her part, no disdained denial in front of the accusations that were made by the prisoner, but not even any confession of the crime. At the slander trial there will be room to clarify the many still dark sides.
In the meantime, the next 23 July is scheduled the hearing relating to the filing request of the investigation into the death of Sissy: the parents of the twenty-eight year old oppose and insist on other investigations: in their opinion, there was another person in the elevator with her daughter, and it was she who killed her. To this end, a consultation will be filed to demonstrate that, if it were suicide, there would be traces of blood on Sissy’s sleeves. Traces instead not found. The case, after almost 3 years and 8 months, still does not appear closed.
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