Four police officers who have been under investigation after a house search they performed two and a half years ago in the Italian capital resulted in a 36-year-old Romani man falling into a coma are now facing charges of attempted murder, giving false statements, and torture. Hasib Omerović, who has been deaf since birth, suffered serious injuries on 25 July 2020 when he "fell" from a height of nine meters through the window of his bedroom during an unauthorized police raid on his apartment.
Omerović remains today in an Intensive Care Unit’s neurological rehabilitation ward in a state of “minimal consciousness”, the European Roma Rights Centre reported last week. In response to a parliamentary question by Italian Deputy Riccardo Magi concerning progress on the investigation and measures taken against the offending police officers, Nicola Molteni, an Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of the Interior, responded on 18 November that the public prosecutor’s office at the court of Rome has: “initiated a criminal proceeding for the crimes of giving false information to the public prosecutor, false ideology committed by a public official in the course of public deeds, and torture, delegating the mobile teams of the Rome police headquarters to the related investigations.”
