Derby Juve-Toro, the policeman investigated for the wounding of Basoccu returns to work without a weapon

The policeman accused of having fired the tear gas canister that injured Marco Basoccu before the derby between Turin and Juventus on May 24th can return to work: the review court partially accepted the appeal of the lawyers Paolo Chicco and Lucietta Gai, who defend the forty-year-old Michele Sordillo. They asked for the revocation of the suspension for one year, established by the judge for the preliminary investigations: "We are nevertheless satisfied - lawyer Chicco now comments - So our client will be able to start working again and have his full salary, even if "unarmed" and in the offices of the Mobile Department. For a year he will not be in the field in case of demonstrations and marches".

However, the appeal of prosecutor Paolo Scafi, who had reiterated the request for house arrest already made to the investigating judge, was rejected.

According to the prosecutor's office and the police headquarters' flying squad, the policeman smashed Basoccu's head with a tear gas canister and for this he is accused of serious injuries (one of his colleagues is accused of aiding and abetting because he allegedly hid useful information from the investigators). The investigations are still ongoing and the investigating judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing on the metal nozzle of the tear gas canister, on three stones and on Basoccu's hat. Unrepeatable investigations entrusted to the ballistics expert Luca Soldati and the medical examiner Roberto Testi, who in recent days have begun to look for compatible elements between the injuries suffered by the fan and the traces on the tear gas canister or on the stones. In the meantime, Basoccu's life still remains suspended, given that the skull reconstruction operation has not yet taken place: "The wound has not yet healed completely" the 34-year-old fan vented to Repubblica.