A Milan preliminary investigations judge ruled that a police officer arrested for shooting dead a suspected drug dealer in the Rogoredo district last month must remain in jail and will be fired by the police force.

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 23 - A policeman who shot dead a 28-year-old suspected drugs pusher in Milan's Rogoredo district on January 26 was detained on Monday for suspected homicide. The 42-year-old policeman, Carmelo Cinturrino, had said the deceased man, Moroccan Abderrahim Mansouri, pulled a pistol on him that subsequently turned out to be blank-firing gun during a drugs control. Prosecutors, however, suspect that Cinturrino planted the blank-firing gun at the crime scene after Mansour was kille...