Italian Police Officer Arrested for Murder Sparks Political Row

Italian ministers accused of ‘serious blunder’ as police officer arrested for murder

Meloni government had claimed case showed why officers using weapons in self-defence needed more protection The arrest of an Italian police officer on suspicion of murder over the fatal shooting of a Moroccan man has prompted a row after the opposition accused Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government of exploiting the case for political ends. Abderrahim Mansouri, 28, was shot in the head by Carmelo Cinturrino, assistant chief of Mecenate police station, during a police drugs patrol in the Rogore...

By Angela Giuffrida in Rome