Bologna, July 19, 2026 – He died after a police intervention. Some officers were handcuffing Abderrahim Fakir while he was on the ground, struggling and shouting. At a certain point, he passed away.
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Abderrahim Fakir, born in 1983 and still 43 years old, was at Pilastro, on via Svevo where he died “to find a friend”. This is how Fakir’s brother and sister reconstructed the events.
Who is the man who died
The man, born in Morocco but in Italy for seven years, was married and lived in Borgonuovo in the municipality of Sasso Marconi and as his brother Mohamed reports, he worked in a porter company engaged in logistics.
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Besides the brother, Fakir also had a sister, who rushed to Pilastro this afternoon once she learned of what happened. With the woman was also the husband and brother-in-law of the 42-year-old, with whom “we had a beer just last night”.
The relatives: “An unworthy death”
The relatives remember Abderrahim Fakir as “a good-natured man. He never hurt anyone and had an unworthy death“, Mohamed, the brother, emphasized again. The man had lost his mother a couple of years ago and was known in Pilastro and had many acquaintances, as testified by the many people who gathered in the garages of via Svevo 6 after the tragedy and who chanted prayer songs when the mortuary staff carried away Fakir’s body.
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