E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 18 his staff to damage the image of the institution and the rehabilitation programme in which he was engaged. In view of the number of consistent testimonies from detainees in different wings who all said that sticks were to be found in the same place and that most of whom bore marks consistent with their allegations, the Special Rapporteur made it clear that he considered this explanation implausible. The Director finally recognized that he could “not justify the unjustifiable”. 49. The last wing he visited was wing G, where the most dangerous inmates from Carandiru prison and those who were going to be transferred to other FEBEM institutions were said to be detained. The Special Rapporteur noticed that there were mattresses in all the cells. Detainees said that mattresses had been brought for the first time on that very day. According to the detainees, they otherwise had to sleep half-naked with dirty blankets on cement beds. The attention of the Special Rapporteur was also drawn to the fact that in at least one cell of this wing, only literally boiling hot water was coming from the shower, making washing impossible. It must be noted that in this wing, the overwhelming majority, if not all of the detainees had visible and mostly recent marks over their entire bodies, including the head, consistent with allegations of beatings with iron bars and wooden sticks. Several asked the Director in the presence of the Special Rapporteur why they were beaten by monitores if they did not threaten or attack them. The attacks by between 30 and 50 monitores, who most of the time allegedly have their faces covered and are believed to be often drunk or drugged, were said to take place at night and for no reason. Again, some detainees gave information to the Special Rapporteur regarding the place where the sticks used to beat them were kept. The Special Rapporteur was thus able to discover a number of sticks consistent with those described by detainees, hidden under a table and covered with a sheet in the monitores’ room which, as confirmed by the Director, was only accessible to monitores themselves. 50. At the end of his visit, the Special Rapporteur met two minors he had seen the previous day at the office of the public prosecutors for children and adolescent of the City of São Paulo. According to the information received, when they were taken back to Franco da Rocha with six other inmates who had been with them at the public prosecutors’ office, a number of monitores, as well as some individuals they could not identify as monitores working in Franco da Rocha, were waiting for them in the corridor. They were allegedly severely beaten with iron bars and wooden sticks, punched and kicked. They were then reportedly forced to take a cold shower, allegedly to make the marks disappear. During the night, it is alleged that around 30 masked monitores, commonly referred by detainees as “ninjas”, came into their cells and started to beat everybody indiscriminately with iron bars. Some were then reportedly taken out of their cells to a small dark room for an hour and a half where, hands behind their heads, they were allegedly threatened with being beaten again. At the time of the interview, recent marks of beatings which had not been present the day before when the Special Rapporteur met them at the public prosecutors’ office were visible on their bodies, in particular on the back. Questioned by the Special Rapporteur about the marks, the monitores indicated that they had certainly been self-inflicted by the detainees when they had learned that the Special Rapporteur was currently visiting the institution. In view of the nature of the marks, in particular haematomas, which clearly had not been self-inflicted during the previous couple of hours, the Special Rapporteur was not convinced by this explanation.