Three arrests after what happened during the event of March 1 in Messina, in which violent behaviors were recorded towards the staff operating of the State Police. In addition to the disfigurement of several city buildings with insulting writings.
In the late evening of yesterday, the Digos of Messina – with the help of the Digos of Naples, Bari and Varese – executed the application order of the prison precautionary measure in prison, issued by the judge of the preliminary investigations at the Court of Messina, on a compliant request for this district prosecutor, against three subjects, residents in Bari (two) and in the province of Varese (one). The investigations, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Messina, concern the facts committed during the “Carnival No Ponte” event held in Messina on March 1, 2025, during which violent behaviors were recorded towards the operating staff of the State Police, in a criminal progression culminating in the aggression of a superintendent of the State Police, first, assaulted by the demonstrators and, subsequently, by two subjects (two of the three arrested today). Travisate subjects with carnival costumes, one from “skeleton” and the other by “lizard”. During the event, launches of stones, smoke bombs, glass bottles and paper bombs were recorded at the address of police officers. Even a second agent of the State Police reported injuries by the third investigated (now arrested), on the occasion of the operations aimed at identifying the demonstrators.
The identification of the alleged managers of the disputed crimes of resistance to public officials, very serious injuries, damage, defacement, threat, in competition, with the aggravating circumstances of the use of improper weapons and their consumption on the occasion of a public event also took place on the basis of crossed reconstructions of movies and photographs recorded during the event of March 1, 2025, given the transfer of the people investigated; It is a investigation made difficult by the damage of some video-surveillance cameras on the event.