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Date Published: 08/09/2021
ARCHIVED - Villena prison worker viciously assaulted by six hooded men
The deputy director of the Alicante penitentiary had previously been threatened for agreeing to give evidence against her colleagues
The deputy director of security of the Villena penitentiary centre in Alicante suffered a violent attack on Monday September 6 at the hands of half a dozen hooded men who waited outside her home in the early morning before she left for work. The attack occurred mere hours before the victim was due to testify at an open investigation against several prison officers accused of beating a mentally ill inmate.
The deputy director, who has only held the role for a few months, was set upon outside the front door of her house. Two of the attackers held her from behind while the others beat her savagely, all the while threatening her with phrases such as ‘tomorrow, keep quiet.’ On Friday September 3, the victim reported that her phone, which contained images of the alleged brutality by prison guards as well as other messages threatening her safety, had been stolen from work. One of the messages, which had already been forwarded to her superior, was from professional association TAMPM, warning her to erase the pictures or suffer the consequences.
Last month, several officers at the prison were filmed beating a 30-year-old northern African inmate with mental health difficulties for up to three minutes. At the time of the incident, TAMPM released a statement claiming that the prisoner, who had previously been involved in several altercations, spat at the guards before attacking them with a broom handle. As a result, three of the officers were hospitalised for various injuries. However, the prison’s internal security footage, examined by the General Secretariat, reportedly shows that the inmate was not brandishing any type of weapon and entered his cell without assaulting any of the officers.
The footage painting the prison guards as the aggressors was kept in the custody of the deputy director, and she was scheduled to testify against them on Tuesday September 7.
Image: Ministerio del Interior
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