Milan, Feb 16 (LaPresse) – The carabiniere who on the night of November 24, 2024, ran over and killed 19-year-old Ramy Elgaml during a chase through the streets of Milan is now under investigation for road homicide and serious injuries, but for “negligent excess in fulfillment of duty.” This is the decision of the Milan Prosecutor’s Office, which, for the third time in a few months, has issued a new notice of conclusion of investigations to the members of Milan’s mobile unit involved in the “Ramy case.”
Of the seven initial suspects, due to procedural issues, prosecutors Marco Cirigliano and Giancarla Serafini separated the positions of two carabiniere, aged 48 and 30, accused of giving false information to prosecutors for having lied three days after the events, on November 27, when asked if they had copied the videos recorded by the cameras “showing the chase.” One replied no, but this was contradicted by the computer forensic analysis of the phones, and the second claimed to have handed the videos to a lieutenant colonel of the Arma, which was in turn contradicted by chats with the brigadier accused of road homicide.
The position of the latter has been mitigated with the “negligent excess” formula, generally applied to self-defense and, in this case, to the fulfillment of a duty, because according to prosecutors one should take into account the first-instance sentence of 2 years and 8 months for aggravated resistance for Fares Bouzidi, Ramy’s 22-year-old friend who that night was with him on the T-Max scooter fleeing from three police vehicles during the eight-kilometer chase.
In the new act, which precedes a trial request, the allegations of procedural fraud and ideological falsehood against four other carabiniere remain unchanged. Some are accused of completely omitting the “collision” between the two vehicles in the arrest report for Bouzidi’s resistance to a public official, who at that moment was injured and in a coma for five days. This was already contradicted in the first report by Milan local police on the scene, which spoke of a “collision” and an “impact” that caused the scooter to overturn. Confirmation also came from the reconstruction by the Prosecutor’s technical consultant, engineer Domenico Romaniello, who wrote of a “loss of control” due to a “rear contact.”
Similarly, law enforcement officers reportedly failed to record the presence of dashcams in the car and personal bodycams, which had captured the entire chase and the incident. The two carabiniere accused of aggravated obstruction allegedly intimidated an eyewitness, unrelated to the events, to delete a video of the accident (“delete the video immediately, get in the car or you’ll get a complaint”), photographing the witness’s ID before forcing deletion to prevent identification by prosecutors. A second witness was reportedly forced to delete nine files recorded between 4:02 and 4:16 a.m., during the minutes of the crash.