A police officer was seriously stabbed Around midnight near Lambrate station in Milan. The police intervened for a man who was throwing stones at trains and had hit a 55-year-old woman in the head, who was taken to Fatebenefratelli hospital in non-serious conditions. The 35-year-old police sub-inspector was hit with 3 stab wounds in the lung, spleen and stomach. During the operation – we learn – he had five cardiac arrests (forty bags of blood and thirty of plasma were used). He currently also has pulmonary edema. He will be moved to intensive care with a reserved prognosis.
The man, a 37-year-old Moroccan, was stunned by the taser, but still hit a 35-year-old deputy inspector with a knife with three slashes to the back. The policeman was transported in serious condition to the Niguarda hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. The surgical operation to which he underwent lasted seven hours and his condition remains critical but stable. The 37-year-old was arrested.
His name is Hasan Hamis and investigations by the Milan Police Headquarters revealed that he was present in the database with numerous aliases. He has precedents for aggravated robbery, theft, personal injury, narcotics and kidnapping and was convicted of drug and property crimes for which, from 2013 to 2020, he was detained several times in the prison of Poggioreale in Naples and Ariano Irpino (Avellino).
He was arrested and photographed for the first time in Italy on 18 December 2002 in Naples and, since then, he has remained in Italy as an irregular citizen. The prefect of Naples had adopted two expulsion orders against him in 2004 and 2012; thus the prefect of Avellino, in July 2023 when, since there were no places available in the CPR, the Avellino police commissioner’s order to leave Italy within seven days was implemented. The 37-year-old had never shown signs of being present in the Milanese province and was tracked down and checked mostly in Campania. The Immigration Office of the Avellino Police Headquarters had activated the identification procedures at the Moroccan Consulate in 2021, with a negative outcome, as the request had not received feedback from the Moroccan diplomatic authority. Finally, last May 5, he was reported for resisting a public official by officers of the Bologna Railway Police.
Sala: “THE government has not done its duty”
“The proven criminals must be repatriated and let’s be clear, the point is who does what. So also our government, given that some exponents of the majority parties are throwing the cross at Milan and me, should examine its conscience and ask itself why he doesn’t do his duty.” Thus the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala commented on the wounding of a police officer, underlining that “if there is an expulsion order the duty is to carry it out. Otherwise the ones who lose out are the police or the citizens” and in this case it is “clear whose responsibility it is”.
Piantedosi follows with apprehension
“The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, is following with apprehension the evolution of the health conditions of the deputy inspector of the State Police Christian Di Martino who was seriously injured last night in Milan after being hit by numerous blows launched by a citizen non-EU citizen, during an intervention at the Lambrate station”. The Ministry of the Interior makes this known. Piantedosi is constantly in contact with the police chief, who he asked to convey to the policeman’s family and all his colleagues “his emotional closeness to him in this moment of great concern”.
Coisp: ‘The agents deserve respect’
“We are astounded by the cruelty with which Deputy Police Inspector Christian Di Martino was injured this night. We can only rally around him and his family, just as the Minister of the Interior Piantedosi and the Head of the Pisani Police”. This was stated by the secretary of the Coisp Domenico Pianese underlining that “what happened highlights even more how the women and men of the police force are constantly exposed to risks for their own safety in carrying out their work” so much so that “even a banal intervention in defense of citizens can lead to a drama”. The Coisp asks that “politics and institutions, in a transversal manner, rally around Christian, his family and the Police. But not only now – concludes Pianese – but always: the agents, who defend the State and its citizens, have a constant need for support from the State. All those who choose this profession, risking their own safety for the good of others, need respect from everyone, regardless of political colour”.
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