Giuseppe Sortino, the State Police vice-inspector who killed a 44-year-old man, Francesco Chimirri, yesterday afternoon in Crotone, is under investigation for murder . This was announced by the Public Prosecutor of Crotone, Giuseppe Capoccia, who specified that the investigations of the Prosecutor's Office concern all the people involved in the affair.

The episode occurred yesterday afternoon, the 37-year-old mobile squad agent, according to a reconstruction by the Carabinieri, reacted to an assault.

It all started in Isola Capo Rizzuto, where the policeman, who was on his way to the office to start work, saw Chimirri (a pizza chef and social media star with 158,000 followers on TikTok) run over some parked cars with his car and then drive away . Sortino started chasing the vehicle, a chase that ended in the Campanaro neighborhood in Crotone , considered highly sensitive because many criminals live there. When the policeman pulled up alongside him and the cars stopped, the officer identified himself, but Chimirri and the other person who was with him in the car attacked him "brutally."

A violent fight ensued, at the height of which the officer reacted and fired three shots with his service weapon, one of which hit the 44-year-old, leaving him no escape .

<p>Francesco Chimirri</p> ANSA

From that moment the policeman was lynched by several people, relatives and acquaintances of Chimirri who were on the spot, who hit him with kicks, punches and sticks, causing him serious injuries . Chimirri's son picked up the gun that had fallen from Sortino's hand and tried to shoot, but without success. Only the intervention of the Carabinieri brought the situation back to calm, not without difficulty. Now the officer is hospitalized in Crotone where he will undergo surgery for the numerous injuries he suffered, especially to the face, but his life is not in danger. And he is being investigated for murder.