“It’s a really serious matter.” the censorship of beppe hall it is immediate and clear in front of the video that bounces those batons that hit a woman on every smartphone 41-year-old Brazilian transgender woman lying on the ground: one, two, three, four times. Her blows hit her in the head and side as she cringes. down. “Certainly not a pretty picture. I wait to read the report before taking action: for example, suspending the police in question or even reaching a our complaint -something that should not be excluded- to the judicial authority”.
retired street officers
Sala’s words echo those of the Councilor for Security Marco Granelli: «Controls are being carried out by the Headquarters to understand what happened and evaluate possible communications to the judicial authorities and possible disciplinary measures. Meanwhile the agents involved were assigned to internal services». The president of the security commission. miguel albiani speaks of “inhuman violence”.
The defense of the brigade: “Obliged”
However, the position expressed by the mayor and the board is not unequivocal. Around the episode of via Sarfatti politics divide and clash. The opposition takes sides in fact compact in defense agent from the local police. «they did what they had to do to stop the aggression”, says for example Ricardo De Corato, formerly a deputy mayor “sheriff” at the time of the center-right councils and today a deputy for the Brothers of Italy, expressing his solidarity with the municipal body. In the same vein are the police unions: «The agents – underlines Daniele Vincini del Sulpl —were forced to use spacer and spray to take her away. And we are by your side, even with our lawyers if necessary.” Also there League He asks to contextualize the images captured by cell phones: “Let’s not forget where this episode came from: a person with an obviously altered record, who creates problems in front of a school, worrying children and parents and then attacks the agents.”
The center-left: “Climate of hate”
For him center-leftHowever, there is no room for excuses. “It’s a horrible and intolerable scene», clarifies the Milanese secretary pd Silvia Roggiani: «We are certain that both the City Council and the Local Police will act with intransigence to clarify the fact. But nothing that happened before can justify this violence against a defenseless person. For the ex-deputy and activist vladimir lustin fact, the beating would be the son of a “climate of hate that promotes a certain policy”: “These are unfortunately the consequences of a climate of transphobia and violence must be condemned without buts”. The power of these images makes the debate spill over into the social arena, with equally distant positions. There are those who speak of “disproportionate behavior» from the police, «I hope they are denounced», «an aberrational massacre». And there are those who are “always on the side of the police, who summons the iron fist (“They should have given him more”) and that he attacked “the benefactors who always defend foreign criminals.”
The magistrate’s investigation
Beyond the political controversies is instead the work of magistrates who should clarify the beating and the previous intervention of the police in Trotter Park. The prosecutor Marcello Viola and the deputy Tiziana Siciliano have opened a file for aggravated violence with abuse of public function. And they received the first report from the local police. At the moment the file is open against unknown persons. Registration could begin in the next few days. suspect record of the four agents (also as collateral). The woman, a transsexual of Brazilian origin, has a row of small precedents and controls in a state of fire. The first in 2010 for immigration regulations.
refused treatment
When the brigade stopped her at the Trotter, she began to ranting and spitting about having AIDS. He then hit two officers with kicks and shoves to gain escape. The two police officers suffered minor injuries, while the 41-year-old man, rescued by an ambulance called the Via Custodi command, refused treatment. The magistrates are waiting to analyze the images from the cameras in the Trotter area and especially those of Bocconi. Some witnesses will also be heard, while all radio and telephone communications will be acquired.
