Bari, Italy - Ambulances belonging to management of detention centre set on fire

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Wednesday night 2 Thursday, March 3, an ambulance "Operatori Emergenza Radio" Bari was burned and four others damaged. It seems that it is a question of arson, as they called the police. Someone even think of a plausible link may be that the O.E.R. manages the detention centre at Bari-Palese. But running a camp is not the only harmful activity of the O.E.R., indeed for several years this company is under administrative control because of a scandal concerning the management of 118 [emergency calls]. Which interests us little. The O.E.R. complained that after the fire, they had to abandon the transfer of several patients from home to hospital. This is not the only "service" that its ambulances m does. Just on March 3, a person detained in Bari-Palese tried to escape from the ambulance during a transfer from the centre to the hospital, taking advantage of a stop at a red light. He has been incarcerated since, accused of injuring a policeman and an employee of the O.E.R., who had obviously tried to prevent his escape.

Translated from Italian to macerate @ Marzo 6, 2011