Demonstration against class justice in Brussels: a police union denounces police violence
"CGSP Police notes that procedures were not respected during the administrative arrests."
"A police union is denouncing violence committed by police officers during the demonstration organised in Brussels on Sunday 24 January to say “Stop class justice”, reports La Capitale.
CGSP Police sent a letter to the mayor of the City of Brussels, Philippe Close, in his capacity as chairman of the Basic Consultation Committee (CCB)."
"Our trade union organisation was contacted by colleagues who witnessed gratuitous police violence at CARPA (the Etterbeek barracks, ed.) during the administrative arrests of demonstrators who were often very young,” writes the Brussels president of CGSP Police, according to our colleagues. “These members of staff do not want to be associated with this kind of behaviour, and a report for the authorities has in fact been drawn up and sent to the chief of police."
"The procedures for administrative arrests were not respected by INT staff (Intervention, ed.). Each detainee should have had a card attached to their wrist with a cable tie indicating the place of arrest. This would have allowed the SPT staff to deal with them properly! The Covid standards were not taken into account; the demonstrators were crammed into the cells without precautions. There was a lack of female staff to search the female detainees (only two policewomen for some sixty detainees). Minors were brutally beaten in the cells without any reaction from the superiors present. Minors were not immediately handed over to their parents, who sometimes had to wait more than an hour."
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