ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - The Police Union of Croatia on Friday protested over recent arrest of two police officers charged with the rape of a foreign tourist. The union claims that the two policemen were arrested without any evidence
and during the investigative proceedings they had been denied legal assistance.
ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - The Police Union of Croatia on Friday
protested over recent arrest of two police officers charged with
the rape of a foreign tourist. The union claims that the two
policemen were arrested without any evidence and during the
investigative proceedings they had been denied legal assistance.
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An Austrian citizen who was staying in Primosten in July alleged to
the Interpol, about ten days after she returned to Austria, that she
had been raped. She recently identified the two perpetrators in a
police line-up in Sibenik.
As a result, the two policemen have been in custody at the Sibenik
County Court since Wednesday.
"We do not wish to get into the case of the alleged rape, but we are
protesting because the criminal police acted inhumanely towards
the two policemen who have been taken into custody without any
evidence being presented," the union's president, Dubravko Jagic,
told a press conference.
The two officers have complained of being unlawfully detained and
forced to give statements to the police, the unions stressed.
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