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Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov apologized for the police brutality case and declared that dismissals will take place in the Interior Ministry. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee has expressed its deep concern over the recent case that involved police brutality in the arrest of a Sofia family.
Over the weekend, Malina and Petar Nachkovi complained of police brutality and reported they have been severely beaten and, with no sound motivation, detained by police, who after that went on to violently break in and search their home. The police found nothing there besides 5 packs of cigarette without excise duty labels.
It emerged that the couple's eldest daughter had launched a Facebook page against the country's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, which fueled suspicions about the police's actual motives to carry out the operations.
Despite the attempts on behalf of police officials to exempt the police officers involved, there has been enough evidence in the media to prove that excessive and illegal police force has been used in the arrest, according to the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee NGO.
"There is no way one can justify the serious attack on a 56-year-old man on behalf of a large group of police officers," the NGO has pointed out in its statement.
Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov apologized for the police brutality case and declared that dismissals will take place in the Interior Ministry.
However, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee believes that the Prime Minister's statement is not enough, as punishments and dismissals cannot compensate the harmed family. The NGO has demanded a full and independent investigation of the case by the Prosecutor's Office.
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