Relationship in prison between professor and 26 year old transferred from 41 bis. A prisoner discovers them and undergoes two punitive expeditions: 8 under investigation

Love in prison, with beating. A story with both scabrous and violent features was reconstructed by the Paduan public prosecutor Benedetto Roberti , who investigated eight people , including a mathematics teacher who had access to the Due Palazzi prison in Padua , where he held lessons for the prisoners. A romantic relationship was born behind bars between the teacher from Padua and Paolo Gatto , 26 years old, from Messina, son of a Sicilian boss detained in 41 bis. Hard prison had also been foreseen for Paolo, initially detained in Tolmezzo , after being convicted of attempted murder aggravated by the mafia method, robbery and possession of weapons. The regime was then modified and so he was able to obtain a transfer to Padua , with the possibility of following school courses .

There the spark struck with the teacher, but the two wanted to keep the relationship secret. What happened, however, according to the prosecution's hypothesis, was that an inmate had caught them in intimate attitudes, threatening to tell everything to the management of the prison. Thus two punitive expeditions were organized in May 2023. The first time the inmate was beaten by Gatto himself, together with two other companions. On the second occasion, another 4 prisoners were called into action. They were in the gym and the victim had been hit with clubs and tools . The violence was such that he suffered a fractured femur.

The instigator, identified as Gatto, was responsible for some text messages sent to the mathematics teacher from a cell phone that he could not have had. After the second punitive expedition, investigations began and the prisoners were transferred. The officers had seen everything through CCTV , but were unable to prevent the beating. Gatto thus ended up in Montorio prison, just outside Verona , where in August he received a couple of visits from the teacher. At the end of the second interview the woman was blocked and she had to hand over her cell phone to the prison officers , appointed by the Padua Prosecutor's Office to carry out the search. The messages exchanged with the prisoner were thus discovered , together with some top-ups of the clandestine cell phone. The two had discussed the retaliation against the inconvenient witness and the teacher had explained that she had tried to avoid the man's transfer to Verona, through the channels of the voluntary associations that operate at Due Palazzi. The two lovers are under investigation for undue access to communication devices by prisoners, while Gatto and his companions are accused of aggravated personal injury under various charges .