inter alia, he declared that on 07.08.2015, at around 22:30 – 23:00 hrs the vehicle of Benz
reportable lorry type by which woodstuff was transported for the purpose of trade from Cukal
mountain, Rrethina commune to the town of Shkodër, was parked near the place referred to as
Ura e Mesit. According to the complainant, B.M., the vehicle driver had parked the lorry and had
left to buy food in a shop nearby.
At that time two police officers wearing civil uniforms and the road traffic police officer
Mr. H.M. approached the stopped lorry and they have requested the car documents and those
related to the consignment origin and destination. Only the complainant B.M entered the vehicle
cabin because the vehicle driver left for a while to make the above purchases. After a few
minutes operating personnel of the Rapid Reaction Brigade, who ordered Mr. B. M to drive the
vehicle to Shkodër Police Station, where the vehicle’s seizure would take place until the police
authorities would be made available the relevant documentation. As reported, B.M. has informed
the police officers that he was only a loading-unloading worker and was not the vehicle’s driver
but they have not taken into account his statements and ordered him to drive the vehicle to
Shkodër Police Station.
As B.M. has stated, he was driving the vehicle loaded with woodstuff accompanied by
one police officer of the operating personnel. Further, the vehicle driver was not allowed to get
into the lorry cabin. Following the confession, the complainant explained that in the place called
Hot i Ri the lorry has suffered a technical default, as a result of which the mechanism of
automatic self-loading was activities and during the trip some part of the load was thrown in the
road. At those moments B.M. has stopped the car and he was immediately handcuffed and
arrested by the police officer of operating personnel, who was in the lorry cabin and
accompanying him. Subsequently, the group of Rapid Reaction Brigade was informed and other
police officers who had left for another police operation. They arrived in the place where lorry
had stopped as soon as the police officer accompanying the vehicle has notified them, charging
B.M that he was the one that has activated the self-loading mechanism, with a view of preventing
police operations. According to B.M, a police officer wearing civilian clothes, has arrived in the
place where it had stopped. He identifies him by the name A.P. and claims that he has slapped
him on the head and threatened him by words “see you at the Police Station”. Subsequently,
B.M. together with two other persons, G.P. and K.A., are escorted to the Police Station of
Shkodër at around 02.00 hrs on 08.08.2015, where the three of them altogether were housed in
the escort room at the entrance of Shkodër Police Station. According to the testimonies of B.M
and the escorted person K.A., at around 3.00 hrs on 08.08.2015 the police officer A.P. entered
the escort room and punched B.M. about five times on the head in the presence of the escorted
persons, offending and swearing on him indecent words. After that A.P. left for about 5 minutes
and again returned to the escort room, taking B.M. from the escort room and bringing him to the
courtyard of Shkodër Police Station, continuing his physical maltreatment for about 15 minutes,
slapping the complainant and punching him on the head, with a view of obtaining by him
information about the ownership of woodstuff that was illicitly provided and transported.
According to B.M. testimonies, the police officer H.M. and the head of shift of detentionarrest rooms of Shkodër Police Station have been present during the exercise of physical
violence against him in the courtyard of Shkodër Police Station. Immediately after the return to
the escort room, based on the testimonies of B.M. and of witnesses K.A., B.M., he has had signs
of strikes on the head and arm, and has shown headache and ear hemorrhage. At a point he
fainted and afterwards the escorted persons K.P. and G.P. have knocked on the door and
persistently sought an ambulance be called and immediate medical treatment of the citizen B.M..
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