🇲🇦🇮🇹 | “Enough, help!” screamed Abderrahim Fakir as Italian police pinned him to the ground in Bologna. He died in their restraint. Officers pepper-sprayed the 42-year-old Moroccan man, then held him facedown with his wrists behind his back until he lost consciousness in the working-class Pilastro neighborhood on Sunday. A resident filmed the scene. Fakir had come to the neighborhood to visit relatives. Police were called after he appeared to be “in a state of distress.” The video shows paramedics intervening only after he was unconscious, tied at wrists and ankles. Bologna's health authority is investigating the medical staff. During the night, thousands took to the streets of Bologna to protest police violence. The family calls the death “a state assassination.“ His sister stated: “They handcuffed him and he died.“ In 2020, far-right leader Matteo Salvini campaigned in these same streets, ringing doorbells in search of drug dealers. Today his movement defends the officers who held Fakir down.