Six prison guards have been
wounded in separate clashes on Thursday and Friday at a Padova
minimum security prison, said Leo Angiulli, regional secretary
for UIL prison guards union, on Friday.
Thursday's attack, in which four guards were wounded, is
being called an organized attack in which "many detainees of
Arab origin were praising Allah and ISIS", said Seppe prison
guards' union General Secretary Donato Capece.
"It was organized, seeing as how sticks and homemade knives
were found," Capece said.
Two agents were wounded in another confrontation on Friday
in which Angiulli said an Eastern European detainee, who
Angiulli claims was also responsible for initiating Thursday's
attack, was brandishing razor blades and then after wounding
himself barricaded himself in his own cell.
Two of the six wounded agents are in hospital, one with
broken ribs and the other with a fractured arm.
None of the approximately 60 detainees housed on the 4th
floor where the clashes took place are being held for terrorism.
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