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Prosecutors at the Bucharest Court presented new details in the case of police officers arrested for torture. According to investigators, in September last year, the police “punished” two people who said they were not wearing a protective mask. Law enforcement officers tortured, humiliated and abandoned the two, prosecutors say.
Prosecutors at the Bucharest Court show in a statement that the nine policemen are being investigated for the crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, respectively complicity in torture. Eight of them were arrested and the ninth under judicial control.
According to prosecutors, “on 09/01/2020, around 01:45, the defendants were part of a police filter organized in the Calea Șerban Vodă street area in Bucharest, a context in which they were approached by the injured GMI and GTN who reprimanded them for not wearing protective masks in the epidemiological context of SARS-VOC2 “.
Beaten and humiliated in the field
Prosecutors say police took one of the two people and took her to a field on the outskirts of the city, where she was beaten and humiliated.
In these circumstances, in order to punish the injured GMI for the reproaches directed, 7 of the defendants carrying the weapons were illegally deprived of their liberty, handcuffed and transported against their will in a vacant lot located on the outskirts of Bucharest , sector 4, where 5 of them exerted physical violence on the victim for about 30 minutes, applying repeated blows with forceful bodies to the upper part of the body, head, upper and lower limbs, but also in the area of the fingers and soles, and one the defendants subjected the injured person to degrading treatment.
Meanwhile, the other two policemen passively witnessed the violence against the wounded man.
After the acts of violence were carried out, the victim was abandoned in the respective vacant lot ”, is reflected in the statement of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The second victim, abandoned in a dark street.
The second victim was also attacked by the police, prosecutors also show.
At the same time, two other defendants illegally released the injured person GTN, between 01:45 and 02:00.
Thus, after being illegally handcuffed, they locked her in the special vehicle assigned to them, on two wheels stored in the back seat, and transported her to the Zețari area of Bucharest, sector 5, where they untied her. and I abandoned her. on a dark street. “
The case is being investigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court and the General Anti-Corruption Directorate.
Editing: Bogdan Pacurar
