In Vienna, another case of alleged police violence caused a stir. A video shows how when a 19-year-old was arrested, officers hit his head several times on the ground. The police officer is still on duty.
Vienna – After the allegations of mistreatment against a Viennese police officer during an operation in connection with a homicide on Sunday in Vienna-Simmering, the person concerned continues to work normally, according to the APA request from the state police department on Tuesday. The Special Investigations Unit was called in the day before when video of the alleged incident surfaced. The matter will now be examined.
The video, recorded by a Puls24 cameraman, shows how a man’s head is repeatedly hit on the ground during the arrest. According to LPD Vienna, the 19-year-old wanted to enter an area opposite the crime scene, which the executive said was closed, to withdraw money from an ATM. Shortly before, a 38-year-old Iranian had suffered a gunshot wound in a shop across the street from which he died shortly afterwards in the hospital.
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Police spokeswoman Barbara Gass said on Tuesday morning that the investigators were only about to get the original video in order to continue the investigation accordingly, and that they were in contact with the medium. The cut and partly pixelated recordings circulating on the Internet had already been secured and viewed beforehand. “Now all the information is collated and then sent to the competent court, as in any other case,” emphasized the spokeswoman. The police cannot and will not allow themselves an assessment at such an early stage of the investigation.
The 19-year-old, who, according to Gass, suffered a head injury, had been arrested for the time being, and was then released for resisting state authority and causing serious bodily harm. Because a police officer involved in the official act was also injured, according to the LPD. According to the spokeswoman, he “went himself to a hospital after the report was submitted” and suffered injuries to his knee and elbow.
These video recordings are disturbing, there is no apparent reason for this obviously excessive violence.
Georg Bürstmayr, Green Safety Spokesman
“As soon as the police have overwhelmed a person, they are not allowed to use any more violence against them – no matter what they are accused of,” criticized Green security spokesman Georg Bürstmayr. “These video recordings are disturbing, there is no apparent reason for this obviously excessive violence. Our police may only use coercive force if and for as long as it is necessary to overcome resistance, and even then they must always choose the mildest means.”
Questions also arise “that several criminal allegations are being made against the person concerned, including, of all things, that he injured a police officer on the body. These questions do not only concern the officer who hit the head of the person concerned against the ground. It It is also difficult to understand how such reports came about and why other police officers involved did not prevent their colleague from this obvious abuse,” Bürstmayr continued. He announced a parliamentary question. (WHAT)
2023-05-09 23:52:11
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