The Court of Courts of Andorra has sentenced the two police officers tried for the illegal detention of a woman to a sentence of 19 and a half months of conditional imprisonment, according to the sentence handed down this Wednesday. The resolution also establishes the suspension of the public rights of the two convicts and sets in 1,500 euros the civil liability that they will have to pay to the injured party in the form of moral damages. courts, however, he acquitted the two defendants of the major crime of degrading treatment, for which they had also been tried.
The case came to trial after the intervention of the two policemen in the arrest of the woman, events for which the officers defended during the hearing that they had acted in accordance with the protocols established by the body. The trial also allowed the Court to examine the police procedures applicable to this type of action.
The hearing focused part of the debate on police action protocols and the way the officers proceeded during the intervention. The two policemen maintained that his performance had conformed to the body’s internal guidelineswhile the prosecution maintained that the rights of the detained woman had been violated. With the resolution, the Tribunal of Courts considers the criminal responsibility of the two officers for the crime of illegal detention proven, while it does not appreciate responsibility for the facts classified as degrading treatment.
In addition to the penalty of 19 and a half monthsthe sentence involves the suspension of the public rights of the convicted and the obligation to compensate the woman with 1,500 euros for the moral damages caused. The sentence thus puts an end, in the first instance, to a procedure in which the police action and the protocols followed by the officers have been one of the main elements analyzed by the court.
