Hammer blows to the back, extortion, and naked bodies: all the shocking accusations against Cinturrino and two other police officers

Carmelo Cinturrino, the police officer accused of more than 30 charges, in addition to the aggravated murder of Abderrahim Mansouri, along with two other officers who were on duty at the Mecenate Police Station, allegedly stripped, threw "to the ground", hit "with a hammer on the sternum and on the sides" and with "the neck of a beer bottle" a disabled drug addict. And all three, threatening him, would have tried to take away drugs and money that the man was holding on behalf of Mansouri.

This is just one of the charges against the chief assistant - in this case for the crime of robbery - in which the 41-year-old is involved with other police officers. For this incident in July 2025, in particular, officers Davide Picciotto, who was just behind Cinturrino when he shot Mansouri, and Luigi Ramundo are also under investigation. The three allegedly threatened the disabled man by telling him "give me the story, Zack and Minour don't command here". Zack was the nickname of Abderrahim Mansouri. However, in that case, the disabled man managed to resist.

In another of the extortion charges (investigating Cinturrino and Ramundo), prosecutor Marcello Viola and prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia, who signed the request for evidentiary incident to crystallize the statements of the witnesses, write that the two would have dragged "into the woods" another person, stripped and beaten them to force them to "reveal the hiding places" of Mansouri's drugs and money.

Another similar extortion, also to uncover "the hiding places", involves Cinturrino and officers Luigi Ramundo and Gaetano Raimondi. And then among the accusations against Cinturrino are "beatings" with hammer blows "to the back" and to the head, concussions for money demands from pushers even from "800 euros" last January 22, illegal arrests with subsequent charges for forgery and defamation and heroin sold to drug addicts.

And also an accusation of kidnapping, against Cinturrino and officer Giuseppe Pisano, for having locked a 29-year-old Moroccan "in a room" at the Police Station and having beaten him last December 8. The same young man had been illegally arrested by the two on April 3, 2025. They also allegedly took 50 euros from him.

"I am in charge here, the Mansouris do not command." This is particularly the phrase with which Cinturrino allegedly threatened,

along with two colleagues, a dealer before spraying him with "pepper spray". Thus forcing him, last September, to "reveal" where Mansouri's money and drugs were hidden.

This is just another of the accusations of extortion that appear in the request for evidentiary incident to hear eight witnesses, including the Afghan who was a eyewitness to the killing of the 28-year-old.

From the act of the Prosecutor's Office, it appears that Cinturrino and other officers are charged with a total of five illegal arrests: a young Tunisian was allegedly illegally arrested twice in 2024 (in one case, there was the now well-known acquittal ruling of the twenty-year-old in a summary trial) and a Moroccan also twice in 2025. In the case of another victim of an alleged illegal measure, on July 1, 2025, they also took his phone.

To Cinturrino and three officers, among other things, it is also charged that they "offered" cocaine last fall to a drug addict and other unidentified individuals "in exchange for information on who was selling drugs and on hiding places". Two officers, then, allegedly beat a "little horse" until he was sent "to the hospital", also to seize Mansouri's money and drugs. For the same reason, Cinturrino allegedly struck "two hammer blows to the sternum" of another. There were also two victims of hammer blows "to the back" and to the head between last October and January.

The Prosecutor's Office emphasizes the need to hear the witnesses, already interviewed in the investigation, with an evidentiary incident to avoid repeating the hearings in the trial, as they are either in prison, and could be deported, or homeless.