Italian ministers, prosecutors and police chiefs have denounced a European court ruling that tough prison regimes for mafia bosses violate their human rights, warning the judgment will hinder the fight against organised crime across the continent.
On Tuesday, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Italy should reform its justice laws that if mafia inmates cooperate with investigations, they don’t have time off life sentences.
The chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri, says the ruling by ECHR cancels 150 years of struggle against the mafia, the judge's decision not just risks four Italy, but for the whole of Europe.