ZAGREB, May 22 (Hina) - The Zagreb police will file a report with the competent prosecutor's office on an incident which occurred on Wednesday, when a driver working for the Turkish Embassy was taken to a police station on suspicion
of preventing a police officer from performing his duties, Zagreb police spokeswoman Stanka Saraja said.
ZAGREB, May 22 (Hina) - The Zagreb police will file a report with the
competent prosecutor's office on an incident which occurred on
Wednesday, when a driver working for the Turkish Embassy was taken
to a police station on suspicion of preventing a police officer from
performing his duties, Zagreb police spokeswoman Stanka Saraja
said. #L#
The driver was taken to the police station after he pushed away the
policeman several times and refused to show his identification
papers. The police officer requested to see them as the driver's car
was parked in a no-parking zone, on the sidewalk in Masarykova
Street in downtown Zagreb, the police reported.
Saraja said that the Turkish ambassador arrived at the scene
accompanied by an interpreter, followed by several other officials
from the embassy, who Saraja said tried to take the driver away.
"The police prevented this using the lightest form of physical
force, the so-called grip under the arm, placed the driver in the
police car and took him to the station, where the ambassador arrived
later," Saraja said.
She explained that the driver was released after the Croatian
Foreign Ministry had reported that he had diplomatic immunity.
The policemen could not know that the person in question had
diplomatic immunity because he refused to show his documents and
spoke Croatian, she said.
The Zagreb police dismissed statements by some media that the
conduct of the police constituted a violation of international
conventions on diplomatic relations.
Officials at the Turkish Embassy declined to comment on the
incident today, stating only that they had informed the Croatian
Foreign Ministry about it.
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