Of Cesar Giuzzi
The scene, very crude, was captured from a window in an amateur video. It would be an intervention by the local police in the Bocconi area. The prosecutor investigates the case
A woman on the ground. Four local policemen who they try to immobilize her and handcuff her with pepper spray. but also with me Canesso much so that the woman is beaten several times. Also on the side and on the head, although he does not have violent attitudes towards the agents.
the amateur video
The scene, very crude, was filmed by a amateur video made from a window and quickly recovered social. If the Milan prosecutor’s office is conducting investigations.
The fact in the Bocconi area
It is currently unclear what happened prior to filming. According to initial information it would be a speech in the early hours of Wednesday May 24, around 8.15, in front of the Bocconi University.
Hit several times with a baton
the woman, a 41-year-old Brazilian transsexual, They first throw her to the ground and then shoot her while she is sitting on the sidewalk. behind first, with A blow to the head. Then again, still by the same agent, to the right flank while being repulsed after being harmless with pepper spray. In the end one last blow to the head, very violentreleased as another officer tries to handcuff her.
an investigation has been opened
According to what has been known so far, the local police in Milan are carrying out «all checks to understand what happened what are the responsibilities and therefore the measures to be taken against the agents involved”. The command is in contact with the judicial authority “to activate the necessary actions of the judicial power.” of the matter was reported assistant prosecutor Laura Pedio and prosecutor Marcello purple and of course An investigation file will be opened.
The first alarm in Trotter Park
Sulpl union sources, on which, however, there is no confirmation from the commander of the local police Marco Ciacci, what happened was preceded by an intervention in a completely different area of Milan, in Via Giacosa in Trotter Park. here some parents of students from school, around 8 o’clock, reported the presence of the trans “in obvious state of alteration psychophysics” that bothered people and she was trying to undress.
“He got furious in the car”
Once he got into the patrol car, which had left for the headquarters in via Pietro Custodi, more than five kilometers away, the transsexual would have started freak out in the car knocking on the door to then simulate an illness. At that point, as soon as the patrol stopped, she allegedly got out, kicked two officers (who were injured), and then fled before being blocked.
Canes on the side and head
At the moment it does not appear that legal measures have been taken against the Brazilian. What is clear, however, is what happens next with a particular agent who hits the woman now on the ground With several beatings at critical points like side and head. So much so that the Milan prosecutor’s office has now opened an investigation.
Room: “Serious event”
“Certainly not a beautiful image, in fact it is a serious matter However, to formally intervene, the Local Police must do so A relationshippending this report the firefighters in question have been assigned to internal services”he reported the mayor of Milan, Beppe Salaon the sidelines of the City Council meeting. «After all this, it seems to me a really serious fact. I don’t want to say inaccurate things -added Sala- and I am waiting to read the report, otherwise I would risk making a generic comment and I cannot do it”.
Ilaria Cucchi: “We will take the case to the Chamber”
«I intend to go all the way in this matter, until all the dynamics are clarified. The perpetrators of so much violence I don’t think they can get away with it”is the comment of Ilaria Cucchi, Senator of the Green Alliance of the Left and Stefano Cucchi’s sister, assassinated in Rome on October 22, 2009 while in pretrial detention. «We will take the case to the Chamber.. The images that you see are very serious and should not leave you indifferent, because using i Canesespecially in this way, it is forbidden – adds Cucchi – and the fact that they wear a split does not constitute an extenuating circumstance, if anything an aggravating circumstance”.
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