Clashes in Bologna, hearings to validate the arrests in the next few hours

The hearings to validate the arrests of the five young people arrested on Saturday during the demonstration in Bologna, four of whom were minors, which culminated in the violent disturbances in the train station area, will be held in the next few hours, tomorrow or the day after. A meeting took place in the prosecutor's office in Bologna between the prosecutor Paolo Guido and the heads of Digos and the postal police to take stock of the investigations. At the moment there are no other suspects but investigations are still ongoing.

In particular, it will take time to complete the analysis of the numerous videos made during the demonstration and reconstruct the individual conduct of the participants in the clashes. The four minors arrested aged between 16 and 17 all have no criminal record. One of them is an unaccompanied foreign minor, hosted by a community in the city and was about to start a training course to be directed towards a professional path. Two others are high school students, residing with their families in the province of Bologna and assisted respectively by lawyers Alessandra Aiello and Antonio Francesco Rizzuto, who also assists the fourth boy.

The young people are currently inside the First Reception Center (Cpa) in via del Pratello, where by law they can stay for up to 96 hours, waiting for the investigating judge to decide whether or not to validate the precautionary measure. The fifth arrested, however, is a 21-year-old from Bologna, a university student, also without a criminal record, assisted by the lawyer Ettore Grenci. The young man, currently under house arrest, was admitted to Maggiore hospital on Saturday evening after the clashes at the station for his injuries, including a fractured nasal septum and a wound to an eyebrow.