Three policemen at risk of trial for the case of Hasib Omerovic, the 36-year-old who fell from the window on 25 July 2022 during an activity by the agents of the Primavalle police station in the house in via Gerolamo Aleandro. The Rome prosecutor's office closed the investigations by notifying the 415bis, an act which usually preludes the request for indictment, to three agents for accusations, for various reasons and depending on the position, of torture and forgery.
In the investigation coordinated by prosecutor Stefano Luciani, the assistant chief of police Andrea Pellegrini, on duty at the time of the events in the XIV district of Primavalle, is charged with the crime of torture. In particular, according to the prosecution, during the identification activity in Omerovic's house ''with the commission of multiple and serious acts of violence and threats, it caused the 36-year-old a verifiable psychological trauma, by virtue of which he fell into the void after having climbed over the windowsill of the bedroom in an attempt to escape to escape the violent and threatening conduct taking place towards him''.
According to what we read in the indictment, the policeman ''after entering the house, immediately and without any apparent reason hit Omerovic with two slaps in the area between the neck and the face'', telling him ''with be decidedly altered'' the phrase 'don't ever dare to do those things again, to take photos of that little girl'. Subsequently, “he held a kitchen knife and brandished it at Omerovic, asking him, always in an angry manner and shouting, what use he would do with it; having found the door of Omerovic's bedroom locked, he kicked it down, although the 36-year-old promptly took action to hand over the keys.” Furthermore, “he ordered Omerovic to enter his bedroom and forced him to sit on a chair; after having recovered a wire from a fan, he used it to tie the man's wrists and once again brandished the previously used kitchen knife at the man, at the same time threatening him, shouting to him the following sentence 'if you do it again, I'll stick it up your ass…'''. The policeman then allegedly hit Omerovic again with a slap and continued to scream at him, repeatedly telling him 'don't do it again'.
Pellegrini, in competition with the policemen Alessandro Sicuranza and Maria Rosa Natale, is also accused of forgery. In particular, the three would have falsely attested that the intervention in via Girolamo Aleandro was ''depending on having met on the street along the route and not, as actually happened, on previously made telephone agreements'' as stated in the notice of conclusion of the investigations.
The three also certified ''that they had received from the condominium owners of the building, once they arrived on site, information according to which 'several people were living inside the Omerovics' apartment who often cause problems for the condominium, as they live in a state of poor hygiene and they also reported that during some arguments inside the house they could often hear shouting and objects such as glasses and knives being thrown from the window, whereas this information had, in reality, been acquired only after Hasib Omerovic had fallen into the void ''. Finally, the police allegedly failed ''to indicate all the conduct carried out by Pellegrini inside the apartment''. However, the position of Fabrizio Ferrari, the policeman who collaborated in the investigations, has been eliminated.
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