Jeffrey Epstein's suicide film. What the new documents published by the US Department of Justice show

The new documents published by the US Department of Justice regarding Jeffrey Epstein include new details about his death in prison and indicate that the convicted sex offender was not adequately supervised, despite the risk of suicide, The Washington Post revealed on Friday, quoted by EFE.

Epstein died in prison on August 10, 2019, after being accused of sex trafficking and other crimes that could have led to a 45-year prison sentence and after, the day before, thousands of documents containing evidence supporting accusations of sexual abuse against women had been published, reports Agerpres.

Inadequate monitoring in prison

The autopsy determined that Epstein hanged himself in his cell, although many people, including members of the US Congress and supporters of US President Donald Trump, have argued without evidence that he was murdered.

The new documents released by the Justice Department – under a law passed by Congress last month – do not include evidence of a possible crime, instead deepening the theory that prison authorities did not adequately monitor Epstein, even though he was under surveillance for suicide risk, according to the article in the US newspaper.

The documents provide much more detail about the tycoon's previous suicide attempt. On July 23, 2019, a few weeks after his incarceration, he was found semi-unconscious on the floor of his cell with a noose around his neck.

“After struggling to get him to his feet, staff took Epstein by the hands and feet and removed him to a stretcher. A medical evaluation revealed redness and abrasions to his neck. In the photos in the report, dated 1:45 a.m. and labeled as 'possible suicide attempt,' Epstein appears disheveled, dressed in a blue anti-suicide gown, and with slightly reddened skin above his collarbone,” Washington explains. Post.

After that, Epstein was placed under suicide watch, and the documents include handwritten notes taken by staff at 15-minute intervals.

One of the documents indicates that Epstein stated that a cellmate tried to kill him, and the investigation report includes the testimony of an official who confirmed this. However, the investigators did not confirm that the said cellmate, former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, actually assaulted him.

Another document includes notes from an interview with a prison psychologist who observed Epstein over the next two weeks, in which the tycoon stated that “suicide is against his religion” and that he cannot bear pain.

But three days later, when they were considering moving him from the special unit for the mentally challenged where he had been held following the suicide attempt – from which he was released on July 30 – the prison's chief psychologist wrote an e-mail expressing concern “that he had been placed under psychological observation instead of under surveillance for suicide”.

A new intervention by Trump

US President Donald Trump has asked the Department of Justice to “cover with shame” the Democrats who collaborated with Jeffrey Epstein by publishing documents about the late sex offender, writes AFP.

“An additional million pages have been discovered about Epstein. The Justice Department is being forced to devote its full time to this Democrat-orchestrated scam,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Democrats are the ones who collaborated with Epstein, not Republicans. Let them be named, shamed, and then get back to work for our country,” the president added.

“The radical left does not want to talk about the successes of Trump and the Republicans, but only about Jeffrey Epstein, who has been dead for a long time. Another witch hunt!”, Trump believes, without mentioning which Democrats could appear in the Epstein files.