In the cold in the rain, little sleep and limited free time outings: the shocking letter on what happened in the officers’ school where Beatrice committed suicide
The shocking letter was released by the Unarma union: in the past they had already reported to the Minister of Defense and the top brass of the atypical procedures and sanctions imposed on those attending the Marshals' School
ROME – “Rules and customs of what seems like a world apart rather than a barracks of the Republic, an anachronistic enclave of an old absolute and totalitarian state, where the value of the person is practically eliminated due to senseless deprivations and excessive procedures compared to the training objectives. And so, in a model military school, our boys would have undergone treatment exceeding the training objectives of the school. Weapon The policeman narrates that while waiting for lunch, to be eaten in ten minutes, the students were forced to remain in static standing positions, immobile, in the cold, in the heat or even in the rain the ritual of the counter-ball, at late hours and with exhausting times, had to be waited standing. In the first months of the course the students would have suffered very dangerous dehydration, caused both by the ban on purchasing water <. /strong>at the barracks shop, and by the reduced times for consuming lunch and dinner: we either ate or we drank“. It isthe shock letter of a witnesspublished by the trade union association Unarma which in the past had already concerned the Minister of Defense and the General Commander of the Carabinieri regarding reports ofatypical procedures and sanctions issued to those attending the Cadet Marshals School.
“No response has ever been received – writes the union – and nothing seems to have changed since those first timid signs of unease which, after Beatrice’s holocaust, are starting to become bolder and more precise”. Beatrice Belcuore, 25 years old, took her own life with her service pistol at the Marshals and Brigadiers School in Florence last April 22.
AT HOME ONLY IF YOU ‘GOED STRAIGHT’
Many facts were reported: “The lack of sleep due to the scarcity of time was associated with the impossibility of recovering psycho-physical energies, not being able to enjoy adequate time for rest and leisure : free exit limited by overlong and exhausting reviews, breaks during training activities pulverized by commitments, possibility of spending the weekend at home (overnight stay) conditioned on training success or even non having experienced illness during the leave enjoyed in the previous weeks, the lack of time also made daily hygiene difficult. Many girls would have suffered menstrual irregularities >, excessive hair loss and even eating disorders. May this page close soon! May militarism be removed from the suffering and useless deprivations of our children, and brought back to the values, commitment and respect for the rules”.
Unarma “while dutifully continuing to forward to the Judicial Authority every writing it receives on the issue, considers it a priority to condemn an anachronistic, excessive and non-inclusive training system, promoting every effort to bring it back within the perimeter of the democratic spirit. It does not intend to condemn men , trainers not trained for training, who were mere cogs in an archaic training tradition. It is necessary to follow the path of a new humanism, not limited only to educational institutions, but extended to all departments of the Army, in order to give back. to each carabiniere a renewed dignity, protected from mistreatment and harassment.
In this battle of legality and justice – concludes Unarma – the carabinieri Beatrice, to whom we have sworn our commitment not to let her sacrifice fall into oblivion , looks at us and illuminates us from above”.