Bologna protests intensify after immigrant's death in police custody

Abderrahim Fakir, 42, died in police custody during arrest in Bologna; his death has caused family trauma and community unrest.

In the heat of a Bologna summer, a routine police call ended with a man dead and a city asking what it owes its most vulnerable residents. Abderrahim Fakir — a Moroccan-born business owner who had spent most of his life in Italy — died in custody after officers used pepper spray and physical restraint, his documented asthma and heart conditions making the encounter fatal. The protests that followed, and the political fractures they exposed, speak to a tension older than any single incident: the distance between the law's promise of equal protection and the unequal weight it sometimes places on

Bologna protests intensify after immigrant's death in police custody

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