Fares Bouzidi, a 22-year-old Tunisian man who was driving a scooter involved in a crash on the night between November 23 and 24 in Milan during a Carabinieri police chase in which his friend Ramy Elgaml was killed, will face an 'immediate trial', without preliminary hearings, a court in the city decided on Monday.
    Bouzidi is accused of resisting a public official.
    There have been major protests over the death of Elgaml, a 19-year-old Italo-Egyptian who was riding on the back of the scooter, including immediate protests in which cars were set alight in the working class and crime-ridden Milanese district he lived in, and demonstrations that turned violent in Rome and other cities last month.
    The officer behind the wheel of the car in the police chase is being probed on involuntary vehicular homicide charges regarding allegations the scooter was rammed.
    Other Carabinieri officials involved in the chase are being investigated over potentially false claims regarding the accident and for allegedly erasing a witness's video.
   

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