The preliminary hearing on the case of Ramy Elgaml, the 19-year-old who died on 24 November 2024 in the crash of the scooter driven by his friend Fares Bouzidi, 23, after a chase by the police for around eight kilometres, was held today on the seventh floor of the Palace of Justice in Milan.
The Milan Prosecutor's Office, in the preliminary hearing, told the investigating judge Tiziana Landoni that she will file a new request for an evidentiary hearing on the dynamics of the accident in which the 19-year-old died in 2024. Two requests from the prosecutors had been rejected during the investigations by the investigating judge. The new request comes after the defense of Fares Bouzidi, Ramy's friend who was driving the scooter, filed a report in recent weeks which essentially talks about a voluntary ramming. The parties will discuss the request at the hearing on December 21st and then the preliminary hearing judge will decide.
The previous stages
In October 2025, prosecutors Serafini and Cirigliano had twice requested an expert opinion on the dynamics of the incident, with requests always rejected by the investigating judge, who pointed out, in practice, that the 'third' assessment could also be done in the eventual trial. Then, the prosecutors closed the investigation, modifying the charge several times, to the point of accusing both Carabiniere Antonio Lenoci and Fares Bouzidi, who was driving the scooter, of complicity in the manslaughter by road, but for the former with "culpable excess in the performance of duty". Last September, the lawyers Piazza and Romagnoli, who assist Bouzidi, filed a new consultancy consisting of a video and a report of around forty pages, created by the "French NGO Index, specialized in the construction of 3D models". A consultancy with which the lawyers essentially reiterate the line of voluntary homicide and ramming. Not of a single accidental collision between the two vehicles in the final phase of the chase, as identified, however, in the consultation and investigations of the prosecutors. The Prosecutor's Office, announcing the new request to the preliminary hearing judge, referred to the filing of that last report by the Bouzidi defence. The Ministry of Justice was also an offended party in the proceedings, and did not decide to ask to be included as a civil party.
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Ramy's family
The Ramy family's lawyer, Barbara Indovina, meanwhile, expressed satisfaction because the victim's parents and brother were admitted as civil parties, as requested, for the crimes charged to the seven carabinieri which range, in various capacities, from aiding and abetting to misdirection and forgery in the arrest report. And not for the road homicide because the family has already been compensated by the insurance of the scooter driven by Bouzidi. It will, however, be a "long proceeding", clarified the lawyer. For the Ramy family - who do not pursue the line of voluntary homicide - it was a "tragedy", while the truth must be ascertained about what happened after the accident, i.e. about the other crimes alleged against the military which would have diverted the investigations.
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