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Italy: Unrest in Bologna After Death of Moroccan Man During Arrest

Italy: Unrest in Bologna After Death of Moroccan Man During Arrest

Italy: Unrest in Bologna After Death of Moroccan Man During Arrest
Above: Police car in Bologna, Italy on March 11, 2025. Image credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images

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Fakir cried for help repeatedly while pinned face down by officers, and thosethat 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. The rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Italy cannotis beextremely dismissed in the political reactions to his killing, and there must be a thorough investigationdangerous.

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 — chaos enabled by elected officials who had prematurely inflamed tensions prematurely. Even the Fakir family's own lawyer condemned the rioting as a crude exploitation of his death.

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