Rogoredo, the staging of the fake gun and the long wait before help arrived, but Cinturrino does not change his version.

Carmelo Cinturrino would have done anything to ensure that Abderrahim Mansouri did not survive that afternoon of January 26 in the Rogoredo woods, waiting for him to die on the ground after shooting him in the head from 30 meters away. He would have waited even longer than the 22-23 minutes calculated in the initial investigations before alerting the authorities. In the meantime, with colleagues present, he organized the staging of the fake gun near the body of the dealer. He would have even turned the body face up to try to demonstrate that he had hit him frontally and not while he was fleeing.

This significantly widened time frame, which documents that for the police officer that young man was not meant to survive, has come to light from more recent investigations by the Mobile Squad of the Police. It was presented as new evidence by the Milan prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia, who is in charge of the investigation along with prosecutor Marcello Viola, before the Review Court during the hearing discussing the request for house arrest for the chief assistant.

Before the judges, who will decide in the coming days, Cinturrino, in prison since February 23, defended by lawyers Marco Bianucci and Davide Giuseppe Giugno, has not changed his stance even one millimeter, not even after the series of allegations laid out in the documents of the request for a preliminary hearing that have certified, according to the Prosecutor's Office, that context of borderline operations, racketeering, beatings, and abuses for the illegal management of drug dealing areas between Rogoredo and Corvetto.

He reiterated once again that he "shot out of fear," that he "did not want to kill," that he is "very affected" by the loss of a "human life," but that it was "a tragic accident." He defended himself against the charge of voluntary homicide, now also aggravated by premeditation, claiming that he did not personally know Mansouri, but had only seen him "in a mugshot." And the defense also rejected all the rest, that disturbing picture that emerges from more than 30 counts against him, including extortion, illegal arrests, drug dealing, coercion, robbery, kidnapping, defamation, assault, obstruction of justice, and forgery.

Also under investigation are another six police officers from the Mecenate Police Station, facing various charges of aiding and omission of assistance as well as illegal arrests, forgery, and extortion. "I am in charge here, the Mansouris do not command," Cinturrino allegedly said, along with two colleagues, to a dealer, threatening him before spraying him with pepper spray. This forced him, last September, to "reveal" where Mansouri's money and drugs were hidden, which he was supposed to hunt down.

He, the defenders explain, was "the public enemy of that drug dealing area in a good sense, making arrests and striking at that criminal context" and those witnesses, at the basis of the new accusations, are "compromised sources in their genuineness: a large part belong to the same degraded context in which the drug trafficking offenses developed." For the Prosecutor's Office, which is working on the evidence and aims to solidify eight testimonies before the investigating judge Domenico Santoro in view of the trial, the scenario is quite different. Cinturrino is also said to have knowingly waited for Mansouri to die, as indicated by a new reconstruction of the calls between the 41-year-old and the operations center, between the center and the 118 emergency service, and between the officer and the 118. To strengthen the precautionary needs for imprisonment, the prosecutors have submitted new documents and highlighted "his inability to self-control".

From the collected records, it emerges that there are eyewitnesses who report having witnessed face-to-face encounters between the 28-year-old and the police officer, in which the latter allegedly threatened him directly: "either I arrest you or I kill you". And the motive also comes out clearly from those statements: his desire to control the Rogoredo drug dealing area, favoring dealers from the Corvetto neighborhood in that zone.