Shoot a man armed with a knife, a policeman under investigation: it is a duty

The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into the hypothesis of culpable excess in the legitimate use of weapons in relation to what happened on Saturday in the Termini station area where a forty-four-year-old Ghanaian who sowed panic among passers-by with a knife in his hand was wounded in the leg by a gunshot fired by a police officer. Read also The registration in the register of suspects of the policeman, as we learn, is a necessary act in order to carry out the checks. Immediately after the facts, a first information was sent to the prosecutor’s office also with the video in which the various phases were filmed with the 44-year-old with a knife in his hand, the policemen approaching with batons and then the agent shooting. The prosecutors have delegated the investigators to acquire any images that may have taken the scene.