Overview

• Gianpaolo Demartis, a 57-year-old from Bultei with past drug convictions, was in a severe psycho-physical state when police were called to Olbia’s Santa Mariedda district on the night of August 16.
• Officers resorted to their stun gun after Demartis punched a Carabiniere in the face during a public-order disturbance.
• Emergency medical personnel said two taser discharges precipitated his cardiac arrest and that resuscitation efforts failed during ambulance transfer to Olbia hospital.
• Tempio Pausania prosecutors have tasked Olbia’s police commissariat and Sassari’s mobile squad under the Polizia di Stato’s Squadra Anticrimine with investigating the case.
• Sindacato Indipendente dei Carabinieri has endorsed the officers’ handling as compliant with protocols and no disciplinary actions have been announced against the personnel involved.