Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan man with a regular visa, died after being restrained by police in the Pilastro neighbourhood on Sunday. The incident is now drawing comparisons to previous deaths in police custody and prompting a parliamentary question.
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Rome, May 29, 2025 – Italy’s top political leaders have launched a blistering attack on the Council of Europe (CoE). They dismiss its claims of racial profiling by Italian police as baseless, ideological, and insulting.
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The Council of Europe’s anti-racism body on Wednesday urged Italy to investigate alleged racial profiling in its police forces. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) called for an independent study to assess the scale of the issue.
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During pro-Palestine demonstrations in Pisa and Florence on Friday, police resorted to force. Footage shows police beating protestors over the head with batons.
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A video went viral in Italy showing Milan police beating a transsexual using truncheons and pepper spray. Parents had called the police saying she was bothering children at the school gates.
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Following an article by British newspaper The Guardian, Italy’s interior minister announced there are no Chinese ‘police stations’ in Italy. The paper claimed 11 of 100 ‘police stations’ operated by Beijing worldwide were in Italy.
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