Verona, kicks and punches on those arrested: two policemen convicted of torture

The accusation was very serious, torture, and was deemed solid and founded. Two policemen from the Verona police force, one of whom was assigned to another position but still on duty, were convicted by the court for having beaten, insulted and brutalized defenseless people, brought to the police station on frivolous pretexts.

For Alessandro Migliore, now a former policeman, the sentence is six and a half years in prison, for Loris Colpini, still employed by the city police station, it is four years and three months.

They are just two of the officers involved in the maxi-investigation into the group of around twenty police officers who sowed terror in the streets of the city until at least 14 October 2022. Preferential victims? Migrants, drug addicts, homeless, fragile, marginal. Everyone or almost everyone was dragged "into the Aquarium", one of the rooms of the police station, where most of the episodes occurred that prosecutors Carlo Boranga and Chiara Bisso described as torture. Kicked, slapped, punched, pepper spray fired in the face.

Strong with the weak, the agents instead treated with kid gloves those who could cajole them with gifts and favors, such as a bouncer, linked to drug rings, and monitored by another section. It is he who shines a light on the group of agents, cameras and bugs then revealed the catalog of infinite abuse to which they subjected the people who ended up in their sights.