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The 37-year-old Hassan Hamis, who then stabbed deputy inspector Christian Di Martino, was running away along the tracks and the officers stopped him fearing that he would be run over. In the scuffle he pulled out a blade. The policeman, in hospital in desperate conditions, subjected to 70 transfusions
Two Polfer policemen saw him at 11.20pm on Wednesday moving on foot on platform 12 of Lambrate station. Hassan Hamis, 37 year old Moroccan, with a string of criminal records, prison and false identities (22 in total) in Italy for over 20 years and with three deportation orders never executed, takes the stones from the roadbed and throws them below. He hits a 55-year-old woman in the right temple as she passes at the foot of the tracks in via Viotti. He faints and collapses to the ground. The officers approach and ask for reinforcements. The 113 patrols arrive at the station in emergency. There is also the flying «Zara», with the crew chief Christian Di Martino, 35 years old, deputy inspector. He’s almost done with his shift, but he’s one of the cops trained to use the Taser. Hamis starts running on the tracks, and fearing that he might end up under a train, the officers stop him.
Di Martino takes out the Taser, orders him to stop, plays the “hiss” of the current, then fires the electric darts. But the volley doesn’t work because the 37-year-old is hit in the leg by an “arrow” while the second lands on the heavy jacket he’s wearing: the circuit doesn’t close. He seems stunned, he turns and the sub-inspector blocks him from behind. They end up on the ground, the hand-to-hand fight lasts a matter of seconds. Then only the screams. Hasan takes out a large kitchen knife that he has kept hidden in the sleeve of his jacket: 16 centimeter handle, 20 centimeter blade. And he hits the policeman at least three times. They are blows delivered with ferocity, the agent is injured in a kidney, spleen and duodenum. He starts losing a lot of blood.
His other colleagues save him (two are injured), who in the meantime have blocked and immobilized the North African, and manage to keep him awake while help arrives. Di Martino is urgently transported to Niguarda. His condition is desperate. The doctors subjected him to a four-hour operation: 40 blood transfusions, 30 plasma transfusions and they resuscitated him five times from cardiac arrest. His condition is still very serious 24 hours later. His life is in danger and his prognosis is reserved.
The attacker, however, is taken to the police station and then to the San Vittore prison. Arrested for attempted murder, injury, resistance and for carrying the knife.
Today, Friday 10 May, Hassan Hamis will appear before the judge for validation. Prosecutor Maura Ripamonti asked that you remain in prison because extremely dangerous. In his file many assaults with a knife in hand. And only two weeks ago the police commissioner Giuseppe Petronzi (now prefect) had raised the alarm about the “increasing use of knives on the streets of Milan”.
Last Sunday Hamis was stopped by the railway police in Bologna. He threatened passengers on an Italo train by waving a razor. Story closed with a free complaint for resistance. The umpteenth of his 22 years in Italy, facts of arrests, prison (detained several times in Poggioreale and Avellino), precedents for aggravated robbery, theft, injuries, drugs and kidnapping.
It is not known when it arrived in our country. Lhe was checked for the first time in Naples, on 18 December 2002. He never had a residence permit and twice (in 2004 and 2012) the prefect of Naples ordered his expulsion. However, this provision was never carried out. The one in Avellino did the same in July 2023, but there were no places in the CPR and therefore everything was resolved with the order to leave Italy within seven days. Everything fell on deaf ears. Three years ago, hoping for an expulsion, the Avellino police headquarters had tried to find help from the Moroccan consulate. But no answers ever arrived from Rabat.
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May 10, 2024 (modified May 10, 2024 | 06:52)
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