Milan, 24 March (LaPresse) – The Milan investigating magistrate, Domenico Santoro, has scheduled the questioning of eight drug dealers and addicts for 1 and 2 April. These individuals have accused police officer Carmelo Cinturrino and other officers from the Mecenate Police Station in Milan of extorting money and drugs and of falsifying arrest reports. He did so as part of the preliminary hearing requested by Public Prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia and Milan Prosecutor Marcello Viola in the investigation into the murder of Abderrahim Mansouri, which took place on 26 January in Rogoredo. Following the initial investigations by the mobile squad, the case has expanded to include allegations of drug dealing, extortion, assault, robbery, forgery, slander and extortion against seven police officers under investigation for around forty incidents. The hearings will be held in the presence of the defence lawyers to establish the evidence regarding alleged demands for money, falsified seizure and search reports, unlawful arrests, and beatings allegedly carried out by police officers and already documented during the initial investigations or in the defence inquiries conducted by Mansouri’s lawyers, Debora Piazza and Marco Romagnoli, by a 39-year-old Genoese man who frequents Rogoredo, by another 39-year-old homeless man, and by six young Moroccans, Tunisians and Afghans, all involved in the drug trade, some of whom are currently in custody.
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