Gdansk officer who was beating and strangling a taxi driver for a month did not suffer any penalty. The prosecution stated that police conduct was reprehensible, but the city is still the commander asks whether to draw any consequences.
In early September, Mr. Adam - a taxi driver with several years of experience - was attacked by a man she drove at night from the center of Gdansk to Zaspa. Have gone too high, according to a passenger account. When the taxi driver demanded 50 zł, a man pinned this amount, but after a while said that before the travel on the same route pay less.
- He was drunk, grabbed me and put 10 zł three blows in your face. And then he began to choke. When I grabbed the container of pepper gas, pulled out a badge. He said that there is no need to call a police, because police are on site. I got out of the car - says the taxi driver.
shocked driver went to hospital post-mortem done. The doctor found traces of strangulation and broken cheekbones. With this man went to the prosecutor's office to report the robbery.
few days after the initiation of Conduct a policeman himself reported to the Prosecutor's Office Gdansk-Oliwa. That can be read on the internet looking for one of the police websites. Investigators did not reveal, however, it has made to explain.
A late September, the proceedings have been formally discontinued.
- Conservation officer was no doubt reprehensible. Examining the case prosecutor, after examining the explanations of both men came to the conclusion that there was no robbery or other crime prosecuted ex officio - Cezary says Szostak, Chief District Prosecutor Gdansk-Oliwa.
In the opinion of the prosecution However, there is no doubt that, given the taxi driver, a policeman used violence and insulted him. Why, then, the case went to the trash?
- There are no witnesses or other evidence that there was a robbery - that is, the policeman took the taxi driver money or some other thing. Such acts as insulting and causing injury, which lasted less than seven days, are being prosecuted only a private prosecution - said the prosecutor.
After no further action to the Municipal Police in Gdansk, the prosecutor's office received information about the incident involving the officer.
- We felt that his supervisor should know about everything. The decision as to the possibility of the perpetrators left the business in Gdansk police commander - the following Cezary Szostak.
Michalewska Magdalena, a spokesman for KMP: - The case is explained by the commander, the younger inspector Zbigniew Pakula, who must have a clear picture. Until the coming into force the provisions on discontinuance, the commander decided to abstain from the decision of whether disciplinary proceedings be initiated against the officer [it could result in dismissal from the service - ed].
The taxi driver has not yet decided whether the law and whether the private prosecution appeal the decision of the prosecution, he has still not received a written justification to discontinue the investigation.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza Classifieds
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