Como: 18-year-old arrested after attacking police officer, four others charged.

The Como State Police, in the night between Saturday and Sunday, arrested an 18-year-old Italian citizen of North African origins, resident in Cantù, for personal injury, resistance, threats and violence against a public official. He also reported four other individuals, all Italian citizens but of North African origin, for resistance, violence, threats and contempt of a public official: an 18-year-old resident of Lipomo (CO), a 24-year-old Tunisian resident in Cantù, a 17-year-old Moroccan resident in Carate Brianza and an 18-year-old Moroccan resident in Cantù.

All of them, both the arrested man and the four reported, have several previous police convictions for various crimes.

Around 4:00 on Sunday morning, During a territorial control operation, a patrol car passing along Viale Roosevelt noticed two individuals walking around bare-chested and brandishing glass bottles in their hands.

When proceeding with the police check At the sight of the patrol car, the two fled in different directions. During the brief chase on foot, a third individual – later identified as the arrested 18-year-old – deliberately attacked and dragged one of the police officers to the ground, allowing his friend to continue his escape. from the place.

Immediately, with the arrival on the scene of other patrol cars and patrols of the Carabinieri and Local Police, the 18-year-old has been secured, despite the arrival of 4 more individuals, made the officers' operations very difficult.

The four began to rage against the police officers, kicking the service car and preventing the officers from placing the arrested 18-year-old inside the car, who in the meantime was going into a rage, banging his head against the inside window of the security cell.

All taken to the police station and identified, The four were reported at liberty for resisting arrest, violence, threats and insulting a public official, while the 18-year-old was held in the holding cells awaiting the direct trial., held on the morning of September 22.

The positions of the four individuals reported are already being assessed by the Como Anti-Crime Police Division, which will prepare a detailed and convincing technical report for them, for the purposes of administrative preventive measures.

The attacked officer suffered injuries deemed curable with a prognosis of 14 days.