Threats and resistance to a public official. With these accusations, the policemen of the Latina flying squad arrested a citizen of Tunisian nationality in the Nicolosi district.
Around midnight, the presence of a man was reported who was wandering around with an iron bar in his hand, shouting words in Arabic. When they arrived on site, the officers began searching for the foreigner who in the meantime was moving on foot through the surrounding streets, finding him shortly after not far from the place of the report. The man, bare-chested, at the sight of the patrol began to scream and threaten to kill the officers, also attempting to punch one of the officers in the face, who dodged him.
At that point the police, considering that the man showed no signs of cooperating, first pulled out the taser to try to dissuade him and then reached him with the spray provided, which made it possible to render him harmless and arrest him for the crimes. of resistance and threat to a public official. Taken to the police headquarters, he was photographed and several police records emerged against him for crimes against the person as well as a measure of the obligation to report to the judicial police which is still in place.
The public prosecutor on duty ordered him to be held in the police station’s holding cells, pending the summary trial which ended with the application of a six-month prison sentence, with conditional suspension of the sentence.
