There are seven in total the local police officers under investigation and for whom the request for trial on the case of the 42-year-old transsexual woman who, on May 24, was hit with batons, also in the head, and kicks, as well as pepper spray sprayed in viso, in the Bocconi area in Milan, is looming, while some students filmed everything with mobile phones. Videos immediately ended up online and then acquired in the investigations.
In fact, in addition to the three policemen accused of injuries aggravated also by the abuse of public function and forgery in public act (the latter crime charged to two of them), of which it had already been known, four other agents are charged with the crimes of forgery in public act (contested to two) and also of "abuse of authority against arrested or detained" (contested to three of them). This last crime, in particular, as emerges from the notices of conclusion of the investigations coordinated by the deputy Tiziana Siciliano and the prosecutor Giancarla Serafini, concerns the fact that the woman after being blocked, despite being "cooperative" and in "critical" physical condition, was kept handcuffed, write the prosecutors, in a security room with "her arms behind her back for about an hour" in the Central Office stopped and arrested in Via Custodi in Milan, after the alleged beating.
Among the suspects there is also the "head of the Central Office stopped and arrested" in Milan. A notice of conclusion of the investigation was also served on the same woman for the charges of resistance, injury to an officer, refusal of information on her personal identity and receiving stolen goods.
To learn more ANSA Agency Blocked with batons, three policemen investigated in Milan - News - Ansa.it The accusation is of injuries aggravated by the abuse of public function. Disciplinary proceedings were also initiated for the four members of the patrol. The woman filed a complaint with the medical report (ANSA)
Among the four 'new' suspects, two are accused of forgery because, despite the fact that the 42-year-old had been put in a security room "with containment measures on her wrists", they wrote in a report that she had been taken to the offices in Via Custodi to "carry out the ritual formalities". They would also have put in black and white that she was "in a state of agitation and refused any kind of dialogue", while, the documents read, "she was quiet and collaborative". And even though he had "obvious bleeding on his face," they wrote that he had "no other visible lesions," other than wounds to a lip. Three of the four agents of Via Custodi, then, are accused of abuse of authority because they allegedly subjected the 42-year-old to "penalty measures not permitted by law". They put her in a security room "not intended for those arrested for identification" and there, according to prosecutors, they left her handcuffed for an hour. They did not even allow her to "clean her face of blood" and "relieve her eye discomfort". Among the suspects is Sergio Melone, head of the UCAF in via Custodi. In the chapter concerning the alleged beating in the previous phases, contested to the other three agents, the prosecutors speak of "violent blows to the head" to the woman who had been "slammed to the ground" and raised her "hands" as a sign of "surrender". The beating also ended with a "kick to the legs". And they would have written the false in the report claiming that they had intervened that morning in Via Giacosa because the 42-year-old was showing "nudity in the presence of women and children".
It is not true, for the prosecutors, even that the woman, once put in the car, would have given heads to the windows injuring herself. In the acts of conclusion of the investigations, the woman's resistance conducts are also described, with "violence" and "threat", and then the injuries caused to an agent who was chasing her. The alleged stolen goods concern a public transport card that had been stolen and found on her.
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