The Carabinieri police officer who
was driving the car involved in the fatal Milan chase of a
19-year-old Egyptian-Italian man who jumped a control point on
the back of a scooter driven by a 22-year-old Tunisian friend
behaved in a correct manner, according to a forensic analysis
provided by an expert appointed by the State Attorney's office
in Italy's financial capital filed on Wednesday.
The Carabinieri officer, charged of vehicular homicide together
with the scooter's driver Fares Bouzidi, hit the breaks when he
was supposed to and did not ram into the scooter at the end of
the chase but hit it while the chase was still ongoing,
according to the analysis provided by the expert.
The expert's paper would thus attribute responsibility to the
scooter's driver for the accident that led to Ramy Elgaml's
death, judicial sources said.
A video of the accident that took place on November 24 last year
probed by investigators appeared to show the lead patrol car
drive into the scooter at the end of the eight-kilometre chase,
which reportedly started when Elgaml decided to jump the
checkpoint because he didn't have a valid license.
The video also appeared to show officers approaching a witness
and possibly intimating to him that he should erase evidence of
the fatal crash, as he had maintained.
The incident sparked several days of unrest in the high-crime
former working class Corvetto district where the young man
lived, in which several police were hurt, as well as nationwide
protests.
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