Bologna, July 28, 2026 – It is a tragedy that takes shape one frame at a time, that of Abderrahim Fakir. The death of the 42-year-old who died at the height of a police detention in Pilastro, a suburb of Bologna, still has details to reveal and the dynamics of what happened, as well as its protagonists and the role they played in the tragedy, are unveiled by the images that are currently the focus of the investigators.
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Starting from the bodycam frames of one of the two officers who intervened to contain Fakir. A device whose footage now provides a new clip of about ten seconds. Images in which you see the officer holding the 42-year-old’s head pressed against the asphalt, while two other ordinary citizens approach from the front. These are the final stages of the containment, shortly before Abderrahim lost consciousness. In this moment, besides the shirtless young man who was immediately identified as the citizen who most actively and longest helped the officers to restrain Fakir, the bodycam captures another young man, wearing a white shirt and barefoot, bending over the 42-year-old, taking him by a shoulder, facilitating with this gesture the handcuffing of Abderrahim.
There are said to be four civilians in total who took part, with different timings and methods, in the containment action. Before the police officers realized that the 42-year-old was unconscious, followed by the desperate attempt at resuscitation by the paramedics. A detention that immediately led to the opening of an investigation file under model 45-bis for manslaughter, with the preliminary notes of the two police officers and the four paramedics of the 118 emergency service who intervened.
As part of this investigation, the mobile squad is working to sift through every second of the Pilastro tragedy. In this regard, a camera acquired in recent days by the investigators could also be helpful. A device located in the area where Fakir lost his life, between via Panzini and via Svevo, which may have recorded in whole or in part the moments of the intervention: from when the man began to become agitated to when, after almost an hour, he died.
Alongside the investigations on the images of the tragedy, the inquiry in the hands of prosecutors Arienti and Ambrosino (coordinated by chief prosecutor Paolo Guido) also proceeds with the hearing of several witnesses. Starting, yesterday afternoon, with Fakir’s family members. They were summoned to the prosecutor’s office at 3 p.m., and then left exactly two hours later: Yossra, Mohamed, and Khadija Fakir, respectively niece, brother, and sister of Abderrahim. The three, assisted by lawyer Fabio Anselmo, reportedly spoke to the prosecutors to reconstruct the figure of their relative. Who Abderrahim was, what he did, and especially the last two troubled months of the 42-year-old’s life, during which at least two mental crises occurred before the one in Pilastro.
In the large mosaic of a difficult and complex investigation, the key could come into the hands of the judicial authority when the final results of the autopsy are filed. The examination, “very complex” to use the words of the experts, will resume with the analysis of Fakir’s heart. The organ, removed during the autopsy, will be examined at the end of August, then followed by the analysis of toxicological results in early September. Presumably, in mid-September, it will be the turn of histological examinations on tissue samples.
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