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Belgrade’s First Basic Prosecutor’s Office rejected the criminal complaint against a police officer who ran over a citizen in the seat of an official car during a state of emergency, writes the Belgrade Center for Human Rights.
In the case that took place in mid-April 2020, in which a PS Vračar police officer repeatedly beat a previously dominated citizen sitting in the back seat of a police car, the Belgrade Human Rights Center and the Internal Control Sector of the Ministry of the Interior filed a lawsuit. are a criminal complaint filed with the Belgrade Attorney General’s Office on suspicion that the police officer committed the crime of abuse and torture under article 137, paragraph 3, in conjunction with paragraph 1 of the Penal Code, that the prosecution rejected, according to the website of the Belgrade Center. for human rights.
– Although the recording of the incident aroused great public interest in establishing the responsibility of the police officer, the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade missed the opportunity for the competent authorities of Serbia to conduct an effective investigation and send a message to the public that the abuse of citizens by public servants will be punished. application in this case, according to the Belgrade Center for Human Rights.
In explaining the decision, which was presented to the Center, the Prosecutor’s Office gave the utmost importance to the statement of the injured citizen that “he does not feel mistreated or tortured”, considering that due to the lack of subjective feeling of the injured, his dignity was treated human is not a crime.
– The decision of the Prosecutor’s Office is further compromised by the fact that the acting deputy prosecutor relied on the very unconvincing statement of the alleged official that he “defended” himself from the citizen who spat on him and told him that he would transmit the coronavirus, although the video clearly shows that the officer persistently. beats (slaps) a citizen deprived of liberty, repeating the question: “What is your name?” – affirms from the Center for Human Rights in Belgrade.
The Protector of Citizenship also determined in the act of July 6, 2020 that the conduct of the alleged police officer was illegal, qualifying it as humiliating conduct that resulted in the violation of the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the (damaged) citizen to the inviolability of integrity physical and psychic. integrity and human dignity.
Considering that such a decision by the Belgrade First Basic Prosecutor’s Office is illegal, the Belgrade Human Rights Center presented an initiative to the Belgrade Superior Prosecutor’s Office to issue a mandatory instruction to the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor’s Office to reopen the preliminary investigation procedure . facts and take a new decision on the criminal charges of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights and the Internal Control Sector of the Ministry of the Interior.
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