E/CN.4/1995/34 page 82 police had beaten him and urinated on his head. The court was said to have noted the presence of bruises and other signs of injury on his thorax, abdomen, and back. 428. The Government replied that the correct name of this person was Creaute Arsenie and that on 22 July 1993 he had filed a complaint with the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office and that the latter was investigating the alleged injuries. 429. Antonio Morabito reportedly died in the custody of Turin police on 18 December 1993. Eye-witnesses had observed police officers kick and punch him, hit him with the butt of a gun and fire a shot close to his head. Autopsy and forensic reports were said to have established that he sustained severe injuries to the peritoneum resulting in an intestinal haemorrhage which caused his death. On 4 May 1994 the Public Prosecutor’s Office reportedly requested that two police officers be committed for trial on manslaughter charges in the case. 430. The Government replied that Antonio Morabito had been fleeing police who were pursuing him for suspected robbery and had jumped over several fences, falling heavily to the ground at least once. One hour after being taken to the police station he was found in a toilet lying on the floor and had died while being transferred to hospital by ambulance. The forensic examination ordered by the judge concluded that an internal haemorrhage was the cause of death. The haemorrhage was attributed to his falling, to the fact that his chest was struck by his car’s steering wheel and to his poor physical condition. A hearing in the trial of the two officers charged with manslaughter was scheduled before the Turin court of criminal jurisdiction on 25 October 1994 with subsequent hearings scheduled for 17 and 18 November. 431. Filippo Campanella was reportedly punched, kicked and beaten unconscious by members of the Palermo vigili urbani (local police) after he had asked permission to double park on a Palermo street. As a result, he allegedly sustained partial paralysis of his right leg. Fifteen officers were said to be under investigation in connection with the incident in a judicial inquiry opened in April 1993. 432. The Government replied that four vigili urbani were arrested for abetment in personal injury, assault, abuse of power and breach of duty and that the trial before the Palermo court of criminal jurisdiction would be held on 12 April 1996. 433. By the same letter the Government transmitted replies with regard to cases that had been transmitted in 1993 and about which the Special Rapporteur had reminded the Government in his communication. 434. In the case of Ciro Esposito, who had allegedly been severely beaten by six carabinieri officers in Naples on 25 June 1992, the Naples preliminary hearing judge had found that none of the alleged facts amounted to crimes which the Public Prosecutor could prosecute by its own motion and that Ciro Esposito had not himself proffered any complaint against the carabinieri concerned. The case was thus filed by the judge.