Sentences of up to 7 years for four police officers for illegal detention and injuries to a young man in Barcelona

They attacked a boy who skipped confinement and justified the arrest with a false report

The Barcelona Court has sentenced four police officers of Esquadra to sentences of up to seven years in prison for crimes of injuries, illegal detention, falsification of documents and against moral integrity for the violent arrest of a young Chilean who skipped confinement in November of 2020, which they later justified with a false report.

The sentence, consulted this Monday by Europa Press, sentences two of the police officers to seven years in prison, the third to one year for a crime against moral integrity and the fourth to a fine of 1,080 euros for falsifying documents in the report, and They must compensate the young man with 14,000 euros for damages and consequences.

That night the young man was walking through the Raval after curfew (it was 11:30 p.m.) and three of the accused officers stopped them, but "the young people did not respond to the first call from the police, but they did respond to the second when they noticed that the order was addressed to them."

Then the police put them against the wall and asked them for their documentation, and the court notes that the young people were calm and obeyed while the one who was "most upset" was the corporal, who reproached them that they had to stop if the police ordered them to. .

The young man criticized them for saying that they should have stopped another man who had just taken five euros from them, something that "extremely bothered the agent, who invaded the security space that he himself had created with the boys and hit the boy's head hard with both hands." face, at the level of the ears".

Then he grabbed him by the neck, hit him against the wall and threw him in the middle of the road, lifting him by his legs, causing the boy to hit his head on the asphalt.

Another of the police officers, who was recording the young people's data, saw the entire sequence and "not only did he not prevent the aggression carried out by the corporal but he joined the action" and participated in detaining, restraining and handcuffing the boy. , who was trying to free himself and escape.

A third police officer who was part of the call noticed that his colleagues were having difficulty arresting the boy and went to help them restrain and immobilize him, and in the trial it was not possible to verify that he knew "the illicit origin" of the arrest because until that moment he was frisking other kids and he was turned away and with his back turned.

When the three of them were subduing the boy, the fourth police officer, who was in the patrol car and had not seen the beginning of the arrest, joined in: he got out of the car to help them, grabbed the young man by the legs even though they were "still." and without posing a risk to his companions, with the intention of doing him more harm," he pressed the baton against the young man's ankles.

The boy spent the night at the Les Corts police station and was taken to court the next day at 12:30 p.m., with several blows to his face, arms and legs, and with three broken teeth.

At the police station, the corporal and two officers "narrated and signed false facts in the police report" to justify the arrest, and in this false report they stated that the group of young people were aggressive, booing the officers and not obeying them, and they stated that The detainee had kicked an agent and had tried to hit his head.

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A neighbor who was a witness in the trial recorded the arrest from her balcony, and at the trial she said that after reporting it she had deleted the original of her cell phone by order of the Mossos, and despite the fact that the defense questioned it, the court has been validated as evidence.

When the judicial investigation into this case began, the four police officers were changed jobs but remained within the force, and Interior sources consulted by Europa Press recalled that the case "was prosecuted by the Mossos after opening an internal investigation and considering possible evidence of crime."