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Protests in Italy after death of Moroccan man under police restraint

Protests in Italy after death of Moroccan man under police restraint

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Abderrahim Fakir cried for help repeatedly while pinned face down by officers, and those cries should have been a clear warning that something was going dangerously wrong. The video evidence and witness accounts make it impossible to dismiss this as routine policing — a man died in handcuffs while paramedics stood by. Bologna's prosecutors are right to investigate, and praising the officers before that investigation concludes is a reckless political move.

Backing a protest before investigators establish the facts is exactly the kind of political irresponsibility that turns grief into violence. Rioters hurled concrete, set a city vehicle on fire and injured six officers — that's not justice, it's chaos enabled by elected officials who inflamed tensions prematurely. Even the Fakir family's own lawyer condemned the rioting as a crude exploitation of his death.

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