Rogoredo, Cinturrino’s colleagues: ‘He asked for drugs and money to avoid arrest’

Milan, 24 February. (LaPresse) – Carmelo Cinturrino used the “hammer” on drug addicts and pushers when “they didn’t tell him where the money was and where the drugs were”. This is what emerges from the statements made by police officers from the Mecenate Police Station when questioned about the behaviour of the police officer imprisoned in San Vittore for the murder of Abderrahim Mansouri. “They told me that ‘if they give everything”, they won’t arrest them,“ said one of them on 19 February, under investigation for aiding and abetting and failure to provide assistance. ‘I was amazed. They told me that with ‘Luca”, Carmelo’s nickname, they did that. They gave him the drugs and he didn’t arrest them. The officers’ accounts speak of an “aggressive” atmosphere towards “colleagues”, “drug addicts” and “drug dealers”. “There was always something off, something wasn’t right”. The 41-year-old assistant chief spoke to drug users “alone, looked for the substance, went alone” and if he didn’t find it, there were “shouts, slaps” and even “a few blows with a piece of wood”. “I must have seen him hit someone five or six times. He did it to get them to tell him where the substance was”. Prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia and mobile squad manager Francesco Giustolisi asked an officer if he had ever seen Cinturrino “ask for money and drugs”. “Yes”, was the answer. “So he was known by the drug addicts?”. ‘Yes, by all of them. They called him Luca Corvetto.’ When drug addicts in south-east Milan saw the police cars arriving, ‘they went into “protection mode”, thinking that we were acting like him.’ A policeman recounted an incident ‘a few months ago’ involving a drug dealer in a wooded area. ‘When we stopped him, he said, “I’ll give you everything and then we’ll never see each other again”.’ ‘I asked him if he was joking, and he confirmed, “I’ll give you everything, just like I did with Luca”.’ “He told us that Luca makes arrangements,” he concluded, not remembering precisely whether the drug dealer also added a sentence: “As he did with Zack”. That is the nickname of the 28-year-old Moroccan man who was shot dead on 26 January in Rogoredo.