A Somali man was given a six-month jail term suspended for 18 months and fined €4,000 for threatening, assaulting and slightly injuring a police sergeant while drunk.
Hussen Abdi Rahman Hassan, 25, who lives at the Marsa open centre, was found guilty of assaulting and injuring the sergeant in Marsa on December 13 at about 5.30pm. He was also found guilty of insulting the officer and breaching the peace.
The police were told Mr Hassan was drunk and making a nuisance of himself in Patri Felicjan Bilocca Street, Marsa, the court heard.
When PS Christopher Debono got there, he told Mr Hassan to stop shouting and put down a carton of wine and the glass he was drinking from. But the accused continued to shout and “told the police officer to kill him”, the magistrate noted.
He disobeyed the officer, insulted him and slightly injured his shoulder as he resisted arrest.