Six mossos who beat a driver and his comrade convicted of torture

The sentence affirms that the agents hit and punched and kicked the couple all over the body, saying “we can kill you and no one here knows” and “trying to insult them and intimidate and humiliate them”.

Bump with seat belt

The Seventh Circuit’s ruling also states that police officers tore a heavy loudspeaker from the trunk of the crashed car and threw it on the ground next to them to “instill fear”. At the same time, they cut and beat one of the vehicle’s seat belts in the rest of the article. using the buckle. While the accused Mossos denied the attack and the threats, the victims described the beating and ill-treatment they were subjected to in every detail. “Therefore, it was a completely free and unjustified attack, intimidation and humiliation,” the court decision said.

The events occurred in the early hours of April 23, 2016.. Two of the defendants were doing a citizen security check on Montclar Street in Cerdanyola del Vallès. Shortly before one o’clock, agents stopped a vehicle in which two people were traveling. The driver, who asked them to park in the permitted area, continued at 65 kilometers per hour regardless of this, and the chase began, which ended with the car crashing into a concrete structure.

handcuffed and on the ground

After the accident, two police officers in control arrived at the scene and a few minutes later the other four police officers were convicted. In the decision, it is claimed that six people started insulting and beating themselves “by mutual agreement and with the intention of disrupting the physical, psychological and moral integrity of the driver of the vehicle and his companion”. The judges state that the two youths never tried to escape from the venue and did not resist, the aggression began as they both got out of the car and the beatings continued while they were handcuffed and on the ground.

Physical and mental injuries

As a result of these actions, those who were attacked, one a waiter and the other a factory worker, were injured all over their bodies: from broken ribs to cracked teeth and “multiple bruises”, as well as anxiety symptoms. One of them experienced an event that triggered a psychotic episode with delusional ideas, believing there was a conspiracy between the doctors and the police who tried to poison her. The court set the compensation payment at 140,000 euros.

According to the court, the statements of the two defendants, who were eventually arrested, were “not exhaustive and contradictory” and, in their opinion, “supported by a great deal of external evidence from reliable and diverse sources of evidence”. As a credibility criterion, it stands out that they both accepted self-destructive facts (they may have skipped the check, insulted agents, and smoked alcohol and marijuana: they actually found a small marijuana bud inside their sweatpants). and “They gave extensive details about what happened.”

undeniable injuries.

In addition, the sentence further asserts that “harmful evidence noticed by any person in both complainants the same morning is indisputable”. A Mossos report attributed the injuries to the car crash, but the judges dismiss that theory.

According to the judges, the agents “were public officials and abused their positions and duties, clearly exceeding their legitimate duty to ensure that tourism and its residents were arrested to charge them with the crime of disobedience.” After the vehicle was arrested, they add, “they used extreme inexplicable violence to mitigate this and then continued to inflict completely unjustified corporal punishment when detainees were already taken down and handcuffed.” They also state that the “punishment” is not just physical but psychological, because they say they “threat” them by saying that they could end their lives there and no one would notice or they would try a new one. Taser electric guns on them.”