Trial Ordered for Inmates at Santa Maria Capua Vetere for Illicit Cellphone Use

They are accused of having contacts with the outside world and of using unauthorized cellphones, five inmates of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison for whom the Prosecutor's Office has issued the decree for trial. They are individuals of Sicilian and Calabrian origin. During the investigation - which began in 2020 after the discovery of the cellphones by the Penitentiary Police - interceptions were ordered through which investigators were able to identify all the involved inmates. The investigative activity was closed months ago by the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, which requested the remand for trial of the inmates before the judge for preliminary investigations. However, the defender of three defendants, lawyer Librace, raised a preliminary issue, believing that the crime for which proceedings were being taken, the unauthorized access to communication devices by detained subjects, should not go through the preliminary hearing but through a decree summoning to trial, as provided by the Code of procedure; thus, the acts have returned to the Prosecutor's Office for the decree summoning to trial. This trial on the finding of cellphones in prison is yet another to be held in Campania, where in the various prisons, almost weekly, the penitentiary police seize cellphones and drugs behind bars, which are increasingly being introduced with drones.