Four years after the death of 33-year-old Igor Squeo, following a police intervention in his apartment, the Milan Prosecutor's Office is reopening the case. Six officers and a doctor are now under investigation for that death. The hypothesis is that four officers "caused" the death by "improperly restraining" the young man, while the other two colleagues falsified "the intervention notes" for that June 12, 2022. Finally, a doctor is charged with manslaughter for allegedly administering an anesthetic drug to the young man "without monitoring, despite his oxygen saturation being 82%." She is also accused of falsifying "the emergency report," "falsely indicating a saturation of 96%."
The program "Chi l'ha visto?" (Who Has Seen It?) announced the seven people's inclusion in the list of suspects, revealing that the Attorney General's Office had taken over the investigation. After two requests for dismissal from Milanese prosecutors—who had hypothesized death due to "acute cocaine intoxication" —Prosecutor General Francesca Nanni and Deputy Attorney General Massimo Gaballo granted the family's lawyers' request. And in recent days, investigating judge Maria Idria Gurgo of Castelmenardo was asked to order a forensic medical examination to "ascertain the cause of death."
According to the Attorney General's Office, as stated in the documents, the investigation "totally ignored the investigative hypothesis proposed by the civil parties," namely that "Squeo's death may have been caused by positional asphyxia resulting from improper physical restraint" of the 33-year-old during the officers' intervention, "reported by 118 personnel." Essentially, Squeo died from the inability to breathe due to the weight of the officers holding him down and perhaps the drug used to sedate him.
Four police officers are therefore under investigation for manslaughter, two for false testimony, and the doctor for manslaughter and false testimony. According to the Prosecutor's Office, a forensic medical examination is also necessary "to possibly proceed with the exhumation of the body to verify the presence of additional bone fractures, beyond those found during the autopsy." According to the reconstruction, everything happened on the night between June 11 and 12, 2022, when a police car intervened to break up a fight between Igor Squeo and a young Ivorian man. Igor was handcuffed and pinned to the ground; he was agitated and under the influence of narcotics. The officers called for a doctor who administered sedatives. He died four hours later in the hospital.
(Unioneonline)
