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Pushed Face to the Ground, Abderrahim Fakir Couldn’t Breathe

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Anger stirred in Italy this past week after forty-two-year-old Abderrahim Fakir was killed while under police restraint during a routine check in Bologna. On Sunday, Fakir’s neighbors had called emergency number 118 after hearing screams, and police arrived first on the scene. Video footage shows two officers grabbing the man and holding him face down on the street for several minutes, applying pressure on his back after pepper-spraying him whil…

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A spot of blood on the asphalt, out of Abderrahim Fakir's wide mouth when he was already dead, and his lungs so full of blood that they weigh twice as much...

·Rome, Italy
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A large spot of blood flows from the back of the neck towards the center of the road. Other red rivulets scar the face of a dead man. The body without life is...

·Milan, Italy
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There are new images of the death of Abderrahim Fakir, the 42-year-old deceased during a police arrest in Bologna's Pillar district on Sunday. The video takes up the moments immediately after his death: a scientific police officer raises the sheet that covers the body of the man, still with his ankles immobilized. In the video Fakir appears lying on his back, with his mouth open. Under his head a blood stain, while other blood traces are present…

·Rome, Italy
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Shows a spot of blood under his head when he was already dead, after being immobilized by the police in Bologna

·Italy
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Under the head of the victim there is a long spot of blood, present also on the face. The counsel of the family: "How did all that blood end up in the lungs?...

·Turin, Italy
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Giornale di Sicilia broke the news on Friday, July 24, 2026.
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