Annual Report 2015 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
officio administration should extract, keep and archive images of incidents
in case they are required by the judicial or administrative authority.
186. Various cases were also opened into suspected ill treatment within
the sphere of immigration.
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Repatriation operations
§349 al 364 AR 2014
187. As a result of the supervision of a Madrid-Colombia-Santo Domingo foreign national repatriation flight (January 28th to 30th 2015),
an interview was held with a Colombian citizen from the Las Palmas and
Madrid CIE who presented an injury to their right eyebrow and a blow to
their right eye which they confirmed had bled. They said that the doctor
on duty had only carried out a visual examination and that they were
quickly taken to the vehicle assigned to the repatriation operation. The
doctor and DUE who provided healthcare on board the repatriation flight
stated, following examination, that despite the bruises suffered they were
lucid and in a fit state to travel. The administration refuted this version of
events and submitted the medical report prepared by the CIE medical
staff, in which it was highlighted that the detainee had intentionally hurt
himself, and that the injury did not require stitches nor posed any obstacle to travel.
Incident on a repatriation flight
to the Dominican Republic
188. In another complaint, the person appearing requested that this institution intervene following the actions of the police during a repatriation
flight involving a Dominican citizen. The events were gathered on video
and put on the internet, which prompted the opening of a confidential investigation by the competent administrative body. The images showed a
woman, presumably from the state law enforcement organisations, repeatedly striking the citizen who was going to be repatriated. Information was requested from the CGEF, which in turn pointed out that they had
opened two investigations: one by Pre-trial Investigation Court No.39 in
Madrid (Prior Proceedings 2750/2015) in order to clarify the police actions,
and another by the CNP (under Confidential Disclosure) for the purposes
of determining the possible disciplinary liabilities. In the absence of a judicial ruling the case is suspended.
Escape of immigrants during
their transfer
189. A complaint was processed from an organisation who raised the
situation of some Algerian citizens detained in the Murcia CIE who presented haematomas, erosions and contusions for which they were
being treated. The facts had been related to the Magistrate Judge of the
Murcia CIE, who had reported that all the injuries had received medical
attention and that, in case of an inmate with a fracture in their legs, a
transfer had been ordered to the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia.
The CGEF reported that when the transfer got under way of 16 Algerian
immigrants (boat 18/15) and 24 people of Sub-Saharan origin (boat 19/15)
in a DGP bus with police escort from the temporary-stay immigration
units in Almeria to the jail cells in the Regional Police Headquarters, an
escape from the police bus took place. The Algerian immigrants assaulted various police officers and pulled down the upper emergency hatch of
the vehicle before throwing it outside. Eight of them escaped. During
the pursuit, six of them were caught and put up significant physical resistance to their detention. The minimum force necessary to be able to con-
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