Officer died after chase, arrested man asks for plea deal

Genti Berisha, the 26-year-old Albanian arrested on June 23 for the death, the previous day, of Francesco Imprezzabile, the 39-year-old agent of the local police in Milan who fell from his motorbike while chasing him at 180 kilometers per hour, after the young man in a rented SUV had not stopped at the stop, wants to settle. In fact, a hearing has been scheduled on his "request for application of the sentence".

At present, however, there has been no green light from the Prosecutor's Office on the request and the amount of the sentence.

In recent weeks, following investigations by the local police, the prosecutor Francesca Crupi had requested and obtained from the investigating judge Giulia Masci an immediate trial and then the defense, with the lawyer Fabrizio Cardinali, requested a plea bargain and alternatively the abbreviated trial. So the preliminary hearing judge Lorenza Pasquinelli set the hearing for November 25th.

The charge for the 26-year-old is death as a consequence of another crime, namely dangerous escape. The young man is in prison in Monza for another drug case, while for this investigation he was placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.

For a possible request for plea bargaining, with the approval of the Prosecutor's Office, it will be necessary to see if and how much the accused will make available as compensation. Imprezzabile's family members are the injured parties with the lawyer Gabriele Maria Vitiello. When questioned after the arrest, Berisha had assumed "full responsibility for having made this instinctive, reckless gesture, misjudging the situation as an immature individual". He said he was "sorry" and apologized.

He had realised, the defender had explained, that "if he had reasoned, he would not have gone away and he would not have noticed that the officer had fallen". He continued to claim that he ran away because he didn't want trouble for the few grams of drugs he had with him. In the investigations three other people were investigated for aiding and abetting.