It was only enough for the lady Maria Norma Alvarezby a call from Public Ministrywill travel from Santo Domingo to see his son detained in the National Police Departmentin this main municipality, so that Angel Garcia suffered a brutal beating that sent him to San Bartolomé Provincial Hospital.
The young man, 20 years old, explains in a video the reason why he was physically abused after 5 days held in a cell at the police station, without being brought before a competent judge.
What is the reason for that beating that the Central Directorate of Investigations (Dicrim) had to go abuse you?, his guardian asked the victim. Aida Cuevasin a bed at San Bartolomé.
“Because I made a fuss, I wanted to see my mother and they didn’t let me see her, they waited for her to leave and they took me back and hit me,” responded Ángel García, detained by the police. National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD)in an alleged point of sale of narcotics in a neibero sector.
Aida Cuevas reported that the hospital refused to give her the medical diagnosis of her protected person and, instead, handed him over to the police officers who were guarding him.
“There is an altered abdomen, they didn’t give me the diagnosis, I went out to make a call and when I came in they had already discharged her, they have the diagnosis for the girl who was with me and they didn’t want to show it to her either,” he said.
According to Cuevas, the Investigative Court of the Judicial District of Bahoruco set for next Monday the coercive measure against the detainee, accused of violating Law 50-88, on Drugs and Controlled Substances.
He criticized the fact that the detained young man was not allowed to speak with his mother last Friday, in clear violation of his rights and that she was forced to return to Santo Domingo without seeing her son.
Aida Cuevas, who was in the Police when they denied María Norma Álvarez to speak with her son and later beat him. “When I later send him dinner they call me to take Ángel to the doctor because the Dicrim had hit him.”
“The young man tells me that when the Dicrim man hit him for the first time, he knocked him flat, that he even urinated himself,” said the complainant.
Relatives of the detainee demand justice
Aida Cuevassaid the president Luis Abinaderto take action in this situation “because many young people and many people die from a beating in a detachment by a group of prosecutors and murderers who have their services there.”
He called Colonel Muñozcommander of the Police Department in Bahoruco, to carry out an investigation so that the case is clarified so that responsibility is established and there are consequences against those who beat the 20-year-old young man.
Cuevas said that those who detained the 20-year-old young man took him to the police institution respecting his physical integrity. “They found him perhaps at one point, the boy from the DNCD “He made it clear to me that he had nothing on him, but that he took it to the detachment.”
“I want the members of Dicrim to understand that, even if they are people deprived of their liberty, they do not have children in a detachment or in a barracks to go beat them and that their brutality or their animality will leave them a little,” stated Aida Cuevas.
