MODENA. In the center of Modena, faced with the indifference of passers-by who continued on foot or by bicycle, two carabinieri punched the face, the back and pushed several times to force a suspect who was resisting arrest into the gazelle. It happened on Tuesday, as documented by a video released on Welcome To Favelasattributed to a private citizen who spontaneously delivered it to the social network.
It all started in a public garden, a few steps from the Storchi theater, the main performance venue in the city. Two local carabinieri are proceeding with the arrest of an undocumented man who resisted to avoid being taken to the barracks. The taller of the two soldiers in uniform holds him by the right arm while his colleague grabs him by the left one. Then he hits the suspect forcefully for the first time, punching him in the face. Several more punches to the kidneys follow, and then again to the face.
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The man squirms. He speaks, he seems to be addressing someone nearby, perhaps asking for help. The carabinieri push him to sit on the back of the gazelle, but he grabs one of the soldiers by the collar, and the latter – the same one who beat him previously – starts hitting him again on the head and back.
The images portray several people passing by, apparently without realizing what is happening. At this point the police turn their gaze towards whoever is filming the scene with a cell phone: it is possible that they realized they were being filmed.
At the moment, there is no news of an investigation into the episode, but it will probably be opened in the next few hours. In the evening, the provincial command of the Modena Army announced that the two carabinieri “have been temporarily redeployed in other positions”. The arrested man, the command always underlines, “refused to provide his personal details and show any documents, forcing the operators to accompany him to the barracks for photo-signalling operations and the consequent arrest for resisting a public official and causing damage”. During the intervention, continues the provincial command of the Carabinieri, “the man repeatedly hit the service car”.
Following the very direct ritual, with validation of the arrest, the arrested man was released pending the next hearing. The video made by the citizen «was acquired by the Modena Carabinieri and sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office for assessments of competence», concludes the Modena Army.
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