I have accepted the position of lawyer for Abderrahim Fakir 's family. With this case, I hope we don't end up revisiting a film starring Magrini and Aldrovandi. But the investigation into this matter, as the ECHR requires, should be conducted by an independent body, not the same one to which the people involved belong.

Fabio Anselmo, the Fakir family's lawyer, told ANSA about the police currently investigating the 42-year-old's death during an officer's intervention in Bologna. As a lawyer, Anselmo has previously handled cases such as those of Stefano Cucchi and Federico Aldrovandi.

Meanwhile, the family is speaking out again about the matter: "Our dramatic story is now compounded by the shock of the start of a smear campaign against him," say Fakir's brother and sister. And then, through their lawyer Anselmo: "Every time a man dies in the hands of the state, the price the family pays is public smearing. I would like to know from which databases the information on his long-ago criminal record was drawn. These are revelations of official secrets."

Meanwhile, a demonstration organized in Bologna in front of the Prefecture erupted into clashes between police and protesters after a firecracker was thrown. Protesters tore off window guards from armored vehicles and threw them at police vehicles, which then charged a group of protesters.

(Unioneonline)