The police used inadequate physical force on the man, due to which he died
According to TASS, according to media reports, 25-year-old Dmitry Nikiforenko from the Vinnitsa region of Poland died on July 30 in Wroclaw after being detained by police and taken to a sobering-up facility. The media reported details related to his death later. According to them, the police used inadequate physical force on the man, due to which he died.
After the death of the Ukrainian and publicizing the details of the case in the Polish media, the commandant of police in Wroclaw decided on September 1 to suspend from duty four policemen who had detained the man. Two of them were dismissed from service. The Polish press, citing the local police, in particular, wrote that the man behaved aggressively against the police officer, and therefore the law enforcement officers used gas and handcuffs on him.
Gazeta Wyborcza, which obtained surveillance video from the detox center in Wroclaw, claims that the Ukrainian man was unreasonably mistreated. According to the newspaper, he was beaten and strangled, although he did not behave aggressively. The footage shows a man entering a room with a characteristic stain from the use of tear gas. When he was uncuffed, the man tried to get up. At that point, six men – law enforcement and sobering-up officers – pounced on him. For half an hour, the newspaper reported, they tied the Ukrainian to the bed and beat him with their fists, batons and strangled him. This continued until a doctor intervened in the situation. Resuscitation measures were unsuccessful.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland Andrei Deshytsa said that Ukraine had sent a note to Poland over the death of a Ukrainian man after being detained by police officers.
“The Ukrainian embassy sent a note to the Polish Foreign Ministry because of the death of a Ukrainian in Wroclaw”, – he wrote on Twitter.
Officially the cause of death of the Ukrainian has not yet been established, he was buried in his homeland in mid-August. According to the newspaper, the preliminary conclusions of experts indicate that the probable cause of death was strangulation. The investigation into the Ukrainian’s death is being conducted by the district prosecutor’s office in Swidnica to avoid accusations of bias.