Police officers on trial for illegal detention

Two agents from the Pontevedra Police will be tried on Tuesday as alleged perpetrators of a crime of illegal detention and another of documentary falsification in a report. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for seven years in prison and another ten years of disqualification for each of them.

The events occurred on March 12, 2022. At that time, an individual showed up at dawn at the Police Station in question to complain about the damage caused to his clothing and shoes motivated by a police intervention – he had been identified, along with other people, for painting graffiti in the street.

According to the same source, the agent who treated him invited him to go to the doctor and file a complaint, but the individual left the police station “giving a strong kick at the door.” The agent followed him and “grabbed him by his clothes to bring him back into the building.” Once inside he recriminated his behaviour.

However, the man showed the same attitude again and gave “a strong kick to the door on his way out”, for which the policeman and his partner – the second defendant – caught up with him and proceeded to arrest him “without reason” and “outside the legal assumptions,” according to the Prosecutor’s Office, which points out that the agents acted knowingly “in violation of legal and constitutional precepts.” In addition, as the Public Ministry states in its brief, when taking him to jail, one of the agents slapped him and threw him to the ground, and then hit his head, “without causing physical harm to the detainee”.

Subsequently, the agents prepared the report of the action, justifying the arrest for an alleged attempted attack on the detainee “without being true.” For all this and in addition to the aforementioned penalties, those investigated are requested to pay a fine of 5,400 euro – 1,125 euro or more for the agent who, supposedly, slapped the detainee.

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