Italian Cop Dismissed After Killing Suspected Drug Dealer

Cop who killed drugs pusher dismissed from police

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 30 - Carmelo Cinturrino, a cop who has been charged with homicide after shooting dead a suspected dealer in Milan's notorious drug-pushing Rogoredo district in January, has been dismissed from Italy's State police force, sources said on Tuesday. Cinturrino had said the deceased man, Moroccan Abderrahim Mansouri, pulled a pistol on him that subsequently turned out to be a blank-firing gun during a drugs control. Prosecutors, however, suspect that Cinturrino planted the blank...

By ANSA