From Mad in Italy: The newspapers report that a funeral is underway. A woman, already under the care of psychiatric services, enters, kneels down, goes into crisis, raises her voice. “She had no awareness of the place she was in. We therefore decided to call for a health and public safety intervention,” the parish priest told the press. This would appear to be a full-fledged TSO (Trattamento Sanitario Obbligatorio — compulsory psychiatric treatment), but the news accounts are evasive and contradictory. What is clear is that two local police officers intervened and somehow stopped and restrained the woman. “The woman was face down: one officer was holding her head still to prevent her from hitting it against the floor, while the others had her legs pinned down,” according to another newspaper. The woman dies during the restraint.
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