Genoa, 23-year-old man brandishes a crowbar and threatens passersby: Arrested

The State Police of Genoa arrested a 23-year-old Algerian, self-styled and homeless, for resisting and using violence or threatening a public official, also reporting him for carrying weapons or objects capable of causing offence and sanctioning him administratively for drunkenness. Last night, a crew, during the control of the territory in the Rivarolo area, he noticed the young man, bare-chested, brandishing a metal bar, also trying to hit passers-by.

The officers got out of the car and ordered him to put down the baton, but the man, in an evident state of psychophysical alteration due to alcohol abuse, headed towards them waving the crowbar as a sign of threat and, having closed the distances, he attempted to hit one of the two operators, who, however, managed to disarm him after a brief struggle.

The 23-year-old was taken to the police station where, following investigations, an expulsion order was issued against one of his aliases, meaning that, having been escorted to the border last May, he would not be able to return to Italy before 2030. His position is now again under review by the Immigration Office.