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Bruises on the face and torso, handcuff marks on the wrists: Valery Polosenko, a 42-year-old Ukrainian, filed a criminal complaint against PSP agents in Vila do Conde for assault, harassment and xenophobia. The man was arrested on the night of Saturday to Sunday of last week, when he was behind the wheel of a car with the lights off.
Submitted to the balloon test, it indicates that the Public Security Police charged a crime rate of 2.56 grams per liter of blood. The detainee was transferred to the Póvoa de Varzim police station and, according to his lawyer Alexandra Cruz, he also went to the GNR and the PSP in Vila do Conde. On the way, the agents will have called him “ucra” and “clown” and will have told him to go “to his homeland.” He also says he was pushed and beaten, and his cell phone was taken away, preventing him from calling a lawyer. The Porto Metropolitan Command of the PSP has already opened an investigation to learn the facts, as reported by this force to the CM.
“The citizen, upon being informed that he was going to be arrested for the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol, tried to leave the police facility and reacted aggressively against the police officers, when he was prevented from doing so. (…) The police officers proceeded to arrest him. Containment and handcuffs. After the notification to appear in court and other procedures resulting from the arrest, the citizen left the police facility freely, “says the PSP’s Porto Metropolitan Command.
The detainee filed a complaint with the PSP on Monday for excessive use of force and filed a criminal complaint.
The Minister of Internal Administration ordered the opening of a follow-up process by the Inspector General of Internal Administration to the investigation of the PSP investigating this complaint of aggression against a Ukrainian citizen
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