Concerns in Europe January June 2001
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Concerns in Europe: January - June 2001 57
Amnesty International September 2001 AI Index: EUR 01/003/2001
Mircea Chifan’s children and brothers attempted on several occasions to visit him in the police lockup but were refused each time under the pretext that the detainee was violent. However, the family believed that they were not allowed to see Mircea Chifan because of the visible injuries that he may have suffered as a result of ill-treatment by police officers. The B
c u Military Prosecutor is reportedly conducting an investigation into the death of Mircea Chifan. On 14 December 2000 in Bucharest, at around 4pm 30-year-old N.M. 19 was returning home from work on tram number 34. Suddenly the tram came to a halt in front of a police patrol and two masked officers ordered N.M. to get off, searched him, handcuffed him and took him to a police car where he was reportedly punched on the head and threatened with a gun by one of the officers. After he was brought to the Bucharest central police station he was photographed and fingerprinted, and the police reportedly still refused to give any explanation for his arrest. Afterwards he was released without being charged with any offence. On the same day N.M. was examined by a doctor who established lesions on both hands and bruises on his face, injuries which are consistent with the ill-treatment allegations. On 19 January 2001 in Doroban i, a village in Ia i county, at around 5.40am two police officers came to the house of Acsinie family presenting a paper which they claimed to be a search warrant. They were followed by an unspecified number of masked police officers who entered the room where brothers Dinu, Petru and Mih i a Acsinie were sleeping. The police officers reportedly hit Dinu Acsinie in the chest with a truncheon and then handcuffed the three men. Ten other men in the village were also arrested during the police operation, which reportedly had been organized to apprehend several men suspected of having committed various offences. All the detained men were taken to the Ia i municipal police station. The Acsinie brothers and Anton Florin were intermittently questioned about a theft of hens. They were reportedly subjected to beatings, including with a crowbar on the finger tips, and were ordered to perform push-ups and squats. At around 6pm, 20-year-old Mih i , the
youngest of the Acsinie brothers, wrote under duress a ‘confession’ which had been dictated to him by Sergeant E.G. 20 Afterwards Mih i told Anton Florin: “I could not take this any longer. I gave them a statement admitting my guilt. I shall kill myself.” All four men were released at around 8pm. Six days later, tefan Acsinie, the father of the three brothers, was told by Sergeant E.G. that his sons should report to the police station the following day. That night Mih i Acsinie committed suicide by hanging, reportedly because he feared further police torture. The following two cases of ill-treatment of minors were reported by APADOR-CH. On 14 March 2001, at around 10am in Vl de ti, 14-year- old Vasile D
, who was working in the field with his mother, was taken by police officers S.H. and G.B., and a farmer whose cow had allegedly been stolen, to the local station for questioning. Vasile D nu Moise
later described how the police officers beat him on the palms of his hands and on the back with a “shepherd’s staff” (a wooden rod about one metre long) and with a truncheon. A third officer hit him with a file case on the head making him fall against a stove and injuring
19 The victim’s name is known to AI but is withheld to protect his identity
20 The names of all police officers whose identity has himself. The police officers then drove Vasile D nu
Moise to another village where they wanted him to identify the house where the stolen cow was allegedly hidden. When they returned to the police station, they found Vasile’s mother and a neighbour waiting. Vasile D nu
Moise was crying and appeared very frightened, but his mother was reportedly not allowed to accompany him inside. He wrote a statement which had been dictated to him by the police officers. That evening Vasile D nu Moise was taken to the Pite ti
Pediatric Hospital. The hospital records note that he had an acute head injury, an eye edema and was suffering from “the Silvermann syndrome” (Battered Child Syndrome). The doctor who treated the boy stated that the boy had weals on his back which apparently resulted from beating with a truncheon (see AI Index: EUR 39/005/2001). On 5 April at around 9pm in Oradea Ioana Silaghi, who is 15, and Teodora Stanciu, who is 16, were returning home from the railway station when a man, who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, came up to Teodora Stanciu and addressed her with rude words and gestures. The girls began to shout for help but the man held on to Ioana Silaghi. When another man, who witnessed the incident, tried to help the girls the person who had attacked them took out a police identification card and presented himself as Major M. He then took Ioana Silaghi to the police office in the railway station where, accusing her of stealing his mobile phone, he reportedly knocked Ioana Silaghi’s head against the wall and the table top and then several times hit and kicked her all over her body. Another police officer was in the room but he reportedly failed to take any action to protect the minor. After the parents of Ioana Silaghi and Teodora Stanciu arrived at the station, Major M. initially refused to allow them into the office where Ioana was detained. The situation was resolved when an officer of the County Police Inspectorate arrived at the scene. The following day Ioana Silaghi was examined by a forensic medical expert who issued a certificate which described contusions and bruises on the arms, legs and her body, and a haematoma on the left side of the face (see AI Index: EUR 39/009/2001). been protected in this report are known to AI
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