Shock arrest in Miami for a 25-year-old Italian student. This is what the newspaper «La Nazione» reports on its website. Matteo Falcinelli, this is the name of the Italian arrested in Miami last February, was in Florida to attend a Master’s degree at the Florida International University, the newspaper reports, he was knocked to the ground by the Miami police and his face was pressed against his on the asphalt with the officer’s knee pressed against his neck. Once in a transit cell at the North Miami Beach police station, four of them, according to «La Nazione», hogtied him for 13 minutes, subjecting him to hogtie restraint.
With a strap they tied his feet to the handcuffs behind his back and pulled, until the 25-year-old Italian student from Spoleto begged them to stop because he literally felt like he was breaking. ‘Please, please, please’ would have been the words spoken in a faint voice between tears and unspeakable heartbreak. The scenes of violence, the newspaper reports, were filmed by the bodycams worn by the officers, including the one inside the police station, which the Italian student’s American lawyer managed to obtain from the prosecutor’s office only on April 12 as part of the trial , which effectively ended with admission to the PTI (Pre Trail Intervention), a sort of re-education programme.
The young man arrested: it was torture, but I survived
The young man’s mother, Vlasta Studenivova, entrusted Mattia’s testimony to the Ansa agency: «By surviving the torture I suffered, I won the most important match. Maybe my experience as a footballer helped me psychologically, otherwise I don’t know if I would have made it.”
Mother Falcinelli: Matteo only wanted his phones
«Matteo wanted to go and get his two phones left in the bar and asked for them, but instead of assisting him, the officers asked him to leave. Then he began to turn to the officers asking them why they weren’t doing their job to serve the citizens, but at that moment he touched the badge of one of the officers with his finger and the attack and arrest began from there.” This is what Vlasta Studenivova, mother of Matteo Falcinelli, told In Mezz’ora.
Sources: Miami police internal investigation into the Falcinelli case
The Miami police have launched an internal investigation into the affair of Matteo Falcinelli, the young Italian arrested by officers in the US city last February, whose videos of the arrest have been released in recent hours. This is what we learn from informed sources.
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2024-05-06 06:40:44