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09-10-2014, 05:45 AM
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Re: Davide Bifolco Death
Hard to reconstruct the events that led to his death, as the version of the Carabinieri and the one of the eyewitnesses are conflicting: what is known for sure is that he was along two more guys on a bike, not wearing helmets when they stumbled upon a checkpoint: the guy riding the bike didn't stop and fled (it turned out that he had no licence, that he wasn't the owner of the bike and the bike wasn't covered by the mandatory insurance. The carabinieri started pursuing them (Carabinieri say that they recognized on the bike a man who was wanted for evading house arrest and who's still on the loose, the family and witnesses say that there was no fugitive amongs them); at some point, the Carabinieri's car hit the bike, the three fell on the ground, one managed to flee, the second was caught (and keld by the Carabiiniere with his left hand, while he was holding the gun with the right one), the third one (Davide Bifolco) tried to flee as well and the cop during the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger after slipping on a step (according to Carabinieri) / deliberately shot at the guy, killing him, according to the witnesses. Now, it will be important to estabilish IF there was really a fugitive along with him, because one thing is to run after three kids, another one is to pursue a fugitive (which would justify the fact that the gun was loaded and ready to fire. A man (who has been identified) came out and stated that he, not some fugitive, was on the bike with the other two. The family decided to publish the photos in order to show that he was hit near the heart, suggesting that the Carabiniere aimed before opening fire, and the video shows that actully the Carabinieri were pursuing the others with the arms in their hands. I wasn't there so don't know what really happened, but some personal considerations: 1) Actually, after having run a roadblock you CANNOT be shot by the law enforcements, in Italy: many wrongfully think so, but it's not true. They're allowed to open fire only when they're in the need to reject violence or overcoming resistance, to prevent the consummation of the crimes of murder, shipwrecks, air disasters, train wrecks, armed robbery and kidnapping (Art. 53, Italian penal code). http://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale...o-i/art53.html So the Carabiniere IS in the wrong for sure, but must be estabilished whwther it was intentional murder, excessive use of force, manslaughter or reckless homicide. 2)When someone is killed in Naples by Camorra/other criminal organizations, nobody gives a shit: impossible to find witnesses, impossible to get videos, almost impossible to catch the killer: now that the shooter is a Carabiniere, riots are starting everywhere, photos/videos are available and witnesses are popping up like mushrooms. If some video proving that the Carabiniere shot intentionally, we'll see it somewhere very soon: if some video proving the opposite exists, we will NEVER see it. Just sayin'. 3) The Carabiniere didn't sound a trigger happy dude at all to me, he sent a message to the family of Davide saying (more or less) "With shame I want to say to the family of David that I ask forgiveness for this loss, knowing that nothing and no words can lessen the pain that will mark my life too forever. I'm sorry. I know that this is a humanly unacceptable tragedy, but it was an accident. I never pointed the gun at someone in my life." Also the parents of the victim, while they blame the Carabiniere, asked to the people to stop riots and violence: "we don't want violence in the name of our son", they said. That was nice from them, in such a painful moment. Sad story, it's always sad when a 17 y.o. loses his life, he was there just to have some nice time, before getting out of home he said to his mom "mà, i'll do a ride with the bike, i'll be back soon". Poor woman.  Thanks, DiMMuBoRGiR, nice post |
