A 39-year-old Moroccan man died in Bergamo, Italy, after ingesting cocaine to evade a police checkpoint, local media reported on Tuesday. The man, originally from Avellino, had traveled to the Bergamo area to buy a car and a scooter. He reportedly swallowed a couple of cocaine pellets when stopped by police and later fell ill near the Brembo River. According to his friends, he refused to go to the hospital for fear of being discovered. When they returned from a pharmacy, they found him dead on the riverbank. Prosecutors have opened a case for death resulting from drug dealing against unknown persons.
