A video broadcast on television
Tuesday night showing a police car crashing into the scooter of
a 19-year-old Egyptian Milan resident, Ramy Elgamel, in a fatal
accident on November 24 during a chase with the Carabinieri has
prompted a request from the victim's family to investigate the
officers involved on murder charges.
The images broadcast by the evening news programs of State
boroadcaster RAI's third channel and TgLa7, show the impact
between the scooter carrying Ramy in the back and driver Fares
Bouzidi, a 22-year-old Tunisian citizen, and the police car
chasing them.
In the video, a Carabinieri officer can be heard cursing after
the first impact, apparently because the passengers didn't fall
and then, after an apparent second contact between the car and
the scooter, the officers informing their colleagues via radio
that the pair "have fallen down" after losing control of the
moped, to which someone replies "good".
Investigators are also examining footage showing the Carabinieri
officers involved as they approach the youth who filmed the
accident with his phone who apparently order him to erase it,
according to investigative sources.
The attorneys representing Ramy's family, Debora Piazza and
Marco Romagnoli, said they believe the Carabinieri officers
should be charged with murder and not with road homicide.
Milan State attorneys have opened an investigation into the
case, probing the officer who was driving the police car on road
murder charges and at least two other Carabinieri officers on
fraud charges, among others, over the fact that a video filmed
by a key witness was allegedly erased.
Milan's Corvetto district registered three nights of unrest
mainly by immigrant youths after Ramy was killed in the police
car chase.
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