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Stefano Cucchi
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- Published: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:59
The incident
Stefano Cucchi died aged 31 on 22nd October 2009 in the secure ward of the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome. Cucchi had been arrested late in the evening on 15th October for being in possession of a few grammes of hashish, cocaine and antiepileptics and taken to the Carabineri police…
Giuseppe Uva
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- Published: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:57
The incident
Giuseppe Uva, aged 43, died at 10:30 am on 14th June 2008 in the psychiatric section of Varese hospital accident and emergency department. The evening before, on 13th June, he had been with his friend and flatmate Alberto Biggiogero. The two of them had been drinking after their evening…
Luciano Diaz
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- Published: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:54
The incident
Luciano Diaz, a 41-year-old Argentinian cattle farmer living in Italy for over twenty years, was arrested near Voghera in northern Italy on 5th April 2009 by Carabinieri police officers manning a road checkpoint, on his way home from a rodeo. The Carabinieri claim that Diaz had tried…
Riccardo Magherini
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- Published: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:51
The incident
Riccardo Magherini, aged 39, died on the night of 2 -3rd March 2014 in Florence. On the evening of 2nd March, Magherini had dined out with some people he knew. Then, in a street called Borgo San Frediano, he became agitated and started dashing around shouting, saying somebody had…
