Matteo Falcinelli, a 25-year-old Italian student, was arrested by Miami police and “locked up” in a cell for 13 minutes. The young man, originally from Spoleto, was in the United States to attend a master’s degree at Florida International University. The arrest and the scenes of violence were filmed by the bodycams worn by the agents, which Falcinelli’s American lawyer managed to obtain from the prosecutor’s office only on 12 April as part of the trial, which effectively ended with the admission to the PTI (Pre trail intervention), a sort of re-education program. The video was published exclusively by the national newspaper. Now the family wants to file a formal complaint for the abuse, the untruthful statements made under oath, the unlawful arrest and torture suffered by the young man and to appeal the Fourth Amendment. The story begins on the night between February 24th and 25th when the student was arrested during a nighttime intervention in a club. How things happened will be a matter of investigation.
Miami, Italian student arrested and “locked up” in cell for 13 minutes. The shocking images of the arrest
According to an initial reconstruction, Matteo had had a drink with a girl, and then realized that his two cell phones had disappeared. At the exit there was already a police patrol waiting for him. The police will write that they intervened because the boy created problems in the club so much so that he was thrown out and that he resisted arrest. «It is at that point that Falcinelli ends up on the ground with his hands behind his back and the policeman’s knee pressing on his neck. Shortly afterwards the same images postpone the arrival of one of the bouncers who brings the two cell phones back to the officers” we read on Qn. Then «Falcinelli is taken to the police station. That’s where the torture happens.”
«What my son suffered must never happen again to any other person in the world, much less to a 25-year-old boy, a university student abroad. They took away Matteo’s smile and destroyed his dreams, leading him to even try to take his own life. He was tortured: you just need to watch the videos to realize it. The actions of the police reminded me of the torture that the Gestapo carried out on prisoners during the Second World War and I will go to the end to obtain justice”, says Vlasta Studenicova, the mother of the 25-year-old Italian student, in an interview with Quotidiano Nazionale. years old who suffered a violent arrest in Miami. His son, Matteo Falcinelli «is ill, very ill. They destroyed his life. He is followed by psychologists and psychiatrists. He was initially admitted to a hospital due to the serious injuries he had sustained. He was later transferred to a psychiatric hospital because he was at risk of suicide – due to the brutal torture inflicted on him he attempted to take his own life several times. Even now at night he dreams of the arrival of the police who torture him and he wakes up screaming. I have to watch him day and night.”
From a physical point of view «he has damage to the nerves of both hands caused by the handcuffs being tightened beyond belief, his blood was no longer circulating: at the beginning he couldn’t even hold a cup in his hand, and now he can’t open the door. bottle cap and both hands are asleep. In addition to that he also has serious neck and back problems.”
