Overview
- ANSA reports the video includes the officer’s urgent call for an ambulance and his statement that he fired after being attacked with a knife.
- Ilaria Cucchi describes the object seen near Moussa Diarra as a table utensil and portrays him as experiencing a psychiatric crisis linked to residence-permit delays.
- The officer’s lawyer rejects Cucchi’s account as inaccurate, asserting there was a sudden knife attack and that one warning shot was fired into the air before the fatal round.
- Prosecutors in Verona have requested archiving the case as legitimate defense, the family has opposed, and the judge reserved a decision after the February 12 hearing.
- Cucchi criticizes the choice to use a firearm rather than tasers or shields and cites political reactions, including an earlier remark by Matteo Salvini.