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Autopsy Points to Possible Suffocation in Death of Moroccan Man in Police Custody

A CT scan conducted on the body of Moroccan national Abderrahim Fakir found blood in his lungs, a finding consistent with possible suffocation, as Italian forensic experts began an autopsy on Thursday to determine the cause of his death during police arrest in Bologna, according to Italian media Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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In Bologna, a Moroccan died when two policemen pushed him to the ground and tied him up. Blood was detected in his lungs during the autopsy.

·Berlin, Germany
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Fabio Anselmo, Fakir family attorney. I'm not a coroner, but I think there may be an indisputable asphisticated compression picture.

·Milan, Italy
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It is still to be determined whether the payment and the signs of compression are due to excessive use of force or resuscitation manoeuvres and possible drug effects.

·Italy
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Within 90 days, the medical-legal examination will have to clarify whether and how much police intervention on the 42-year-old who died in the Pilastro district of Bologna had played a role. Already Tac had excluded the presence of bone fractures. Also expected the tox screen, however at the man's house no drugs would have been found.

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It is the day of the autopsy on Abderrahim Fakir, the 42-year-old who died in Bologna during a police intervention. The first results would confirm what already emerged from the CT scan performed yesterday, namely that the lungs were full of blood. An element that would suggest that the man may have died suffocated by his own blood fluid, even if medical-legal tests will precisely establish the causes of death. According to another exam, a bone …

·Rome, Italy
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Il Messaggero broke the news in Rome, Italy on Friday, July 24, 2026.
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