Investigators have identified around
30 people suspected of being involved in violence in Rome on
Saturday during a protest about the case of Ramy Elgaml, a
19-year-old Italo-Egyptian who died on November 24 in a scooter
accident in Milan while being chased by the Carabinieri police.
Eight police officers were injured in Saturday's violence in the
capital.
The suspects investigators have identified are close to
anarchist circles and left-wing student collectives, sources
said.
Other demonstrations were organized in cities including Milan,
Bologna and Brescia by the Italian Antiracist Coordination
"Justice and Truth" to protest against Ramy's death.
In Bologna, the local synagogue was vandalized in the night
between Saturday and Sunday, along with other areas of the city
centre following a march.
On Sunday Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned the protests.
"Amid paper bombs, tear gas and assaults, last night in Rome we
saw the umpteenth, ignoble episode of disorder and chaos by the
usual rioters who took to the streets not to demonstrate for a
cause, but purely in a spirit of revenge", the prime minister
wrote on social media.
"It's not possible to use a tragedy to legitimize violence.
"Our solidarity goes to the police, together with well wishes to
the officers who were wounded.
"We are on your side", wrote Meloni.
The protests took place amid a probe into whether Carabinieri
security officials chasing the scooter carrying Ramy and Fares
Bouzidi, a 22-year-old Tunisian who was riding the bike,
intentionally rammed into it.
The accident occurred at the end of an eight-km-long chase that
ended at the Corvetto district, which officers said started
after the pair drove through a roadblock.
The officer behind the wheel of the car directly following the
scooter and Bouzidi are being probed on involuntary road murder
charges while the other Carabinieri officials involved in the
chase are being investigated over potentially false claims
regarding the accident and for allegedly erasing a witness's
video.
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