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A 42-year-old man died on the morning of 19 July 2026 in via Svevo, in the Pilastro district of Bologna, during a police intervention prompted by reports of a man causing a disturbance in a garage. Officers used pepper spray and then restrained him face down on the ground with his wrists and ankles bound. Video footage circulated afterwards records him calling out for help before losing consciousness; he died during or immediately after the restraint. A Bologna prosecutor has opened an investigation into the death as negligent homicide and police body-camera footage has been made available to it, while the local health authority has begun an internal inquiry. The two police officers who carried out the restraint have been formally registered as suspects, and the position of four Red Cross volunteers who intervened after the immobilisation is also being assessed. An autopsy was carried out on 24 July: a CT scan showed the lungs full of blood and the examination recorded compression of the body without significant bone fractures, but the medical examiner described the examination as very complex and said further test results must be awaited. Whether the compression occurred before death or during attempted resuscitation has not been established, and no cause of death has been formally certified. The victim's relatives have publicly alleged that he was beaten and killed, and a parliamentary inquiry has been announced.
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