He tried to rebel against the police. Convicted for resistance

The Ferrara court imposed a sentence of 3 months and 10 days – behind abbreviated procedure – to the 23 year old Italian ethnic Roma ended up in handcuffs for resistance to a public official And injuries after trying to rebel against the police who were arresting him as he was already the recipient of a precautionary custody order in prison for thefts issued by the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office.

The facts date back to afternoon of Friday 1st March when, as part of the extraordinary checks of the territory, also aimed at searching for the M12 machine gun and 170 rounds of ammunition stolen from a carabinieri patrol engaged in an intervention in San Nicolò, the soldiers stopped a car in via Argine Po.

Two brothers on board who were located at a few meters from their home: the older one aged 23 was driving, the younger one aged 19 was sitting on the passenger side. Both though they had left their documents of identity at home.

So, after finishing the search of the vehicle with negative resultsthe police decide to ‘escort them‘ to their home for identify them. After the inclusion of the name and surname of the older of the two in the database However, it emerges that it hangs over him a detention order for facts for which he had already served time in prison.

That’s when the 23-year-old began to get agitated and walk away, starting to run for a few dozen meters in the fieldsbefore be picked up by the police who carry it back to his home. There, some of his relatives, including his younger brother who was with him in the car, began to defend him.

The police, attacked with kicks and punches during the fight with a prognosis of 7 and 5 days, they would thus have defended themselves with the use of pepper spray and, after calming things down, they then loaded the boy into their patrol, transferring him to the barracks.

During the hearing on Friday 5 April, the defendant’s defense lawyer, the lawyer Nicola Marani, who had made a request for a conditional summary procedure to the acquisition of two short videos shot by his client’s brother during the fight, he had asked for absolution of the 23 year old since his reaction would have been subsequent to an arbitrary or illegitimate act by the police who, not having with them the precautionary custody order in prison of which the young man was the recipient, they would convinced to follow them to the barracks – where they would then have notified him of the document – ​​with the ‘Excuse me‘ that the car he was in was stolen.

Panickedtherefore, according to the version provided by the defense, the boy – to whom the order was then given precautionary custody in prison was actually notified two days after the arrest – it would have started to strugglei, hitting the military.

“It’s a partially satisfactory first instance sentence. The judge at least partially considered how reliable the version we provided. I am convinced of our theory and, while waiting to know the reasons, we will almost certainly appeal” commented the lawyer Nicola Marani as he left the courtroom.

The reasons for the sentence are expected within 15 days.