Gentle punishment for a policeman who beat a romantic ethnic man. What was the reason for aggression

The Constanta Court of Appeal gave this week the final sentence in the case of a policeman who almost three years ago put in the hospital a Roma man, hitting him dozens of times with the cane, fists and feet. The victim needed almost a month of medical care.

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The violent policeman was sentenced to one year in prison with suspension, with a two -year surveillance term. In addition, the policeman must do 100 days of work for the benefit of the community and pay the victim moral damages in the amount of 3,000 euros.

“The court considered that it is necessary to suspend under supervision of the punishment for a term of supervision, considering that a verification of the conduct of the defendant is necessary to obtain the purpose pursued by establishing the punishment, respectively that of preventing new crimes”say the judges.

The incident occurred on May 31, 2022, when the policeman arrived at a store in Constanța, as a result of a notification that a customer speaks badly with seller. When he arrived at the scene, the policeman from Constanța realized he had fined the aggressive man. As a result, he took the man to the headquarters of the Constanta Police 5 in order to apply a contraventional sanction. Only there the policeman hit him dozens of times with his fists, feet and a stick on the man who is Roma, causing them two fractures and being necessary to transport the victim to the hospital, where he needed 25 days of care. As a result of the beat suffered, the victim could not work for 8 months.

At the hearings, the policeman acknowledged his deed. For his part, the victim said that in the evening of the incident he had consumed alcohol, but had no moved gesture to the shop seller, but only a verbal conflict.

At a time, because “He made a gesture” In the direction of the seller, but without assaulting it in any way, he was immediately slammed by the policeman, and was beaten in the section.

The man mentioned that during the whole aggression he was handcuffed with his hands behind (as he had been immobilized at the time he was taken from the street), so he could not defend in any way.

“When he realized that the plaintiff could no longer breathe, the defendant at the bottom high and introduced it again into the room where there was a gendarmerie, transmitting something like the latter:” I reassured this one … “. According to the applicant, throughout the aggression, the policeman repeatedly offended, addressing the name “Gypsy Borc”. After applying a contravention fine of 1,000 lei, the man was taken out of the headquarters, being transported to Constanța County Hospital “the prosecutors states.

At the trial, the victim demanded moral damages of 10,000 euros, but the judges only admitted the sum of 3,000 euros.