Milan, September 12 (LaPresse) – Fares Bouzidi endangered the “personal safety” of “pedestrians,” “drivers,” and the Carabinieri who were pursuing him by driving “without a license,” “against traffic, at very high speed, ramming other vehicles, making constant U-turns, ignoring stop signs and traffic lights.” With these words, Milan judge Fabrizio Filice explained the conviction for aggravated resistance: 2 years and 8 months in prison, without granting mitigating circumstances, for the 22-year-old friend of Ramy Elgaml. On the night of November 24, 2024, Bouzidi was driving the scooter fleeing from Milan’s Radiomobile Carabinieri, during which 19-year-old Ramy from Corvetto lost his life in a crash at the corner of Via Ripamonti and Via Quaranta. “The conduct” of Fares “can only be qualified as illegal and contrary to duty, in response to which the police officers had the institutional duty to pursue, engaging in conduct that was instead lawful and dutiful, and therefore doubly justified,” wrote the judge in the 11-page ruling of the first trial arising from the case, held under the abbreviated procedure. The intervention of the police was “necessary,” according to the judge, and was carried out “proportionally to the danger” that was unfolding on the streets of Milan. In the ‘Ramy case,’ Bouzidi is also under investigation for vehicular homicide in conjunction with one of the Carabinieri driving the patrol car during the 8-kilometer chase. Three other officers are also under investigation on charges of aiding and abetting and procedural fraud, accused of forcing some witnesses to delete videos and images recorded on their smartphones.
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