Investigators probing the case of Abderrahim Mansour, a 28-year-old suspected drugs pusher who was shot dead by a police officer in Milan's Rogoredo district on January 26, think the case could be homicide, sources said.
The 42-year-old policeman said Mansour pulled a pistol on him that subsequently turned out to be blank-firing gun.
But the prosecutors suspect the policeman was involved in 'opaque' anti-drugs operations and that the blank-firing gun may have planted at the crime scene after Mansour was killed, the sources said.
The suspicions were reinforced during questioning on Thursday of four other police officers, who are under investigation for aiding and abetting the cop who killed Mansour and for failing to give assistance, the sources said.
