Slovak citizen Jozef Chovanec has died after being held on a mobile at Charleroi airport in 2018
First in the game August 20, 2020 BST 14.10
The Belgian government was suggested to investigate the death of one guy in police custody after one police officer sat in his chest box for 16 minutes and another made a Nazi salute.
Jozef Chovanec, a 38-year-old Slovak citizen, detained at Charleroi Airport in February 2018 after causing riots while boarding a flight to Bratislava, put him in a cell and began banging his head against a wall, causing bleeding.
On Wednesday, a video emerged showing how he had become trapped on his mobile through six police officers.An officer sat in his chest box for 16 minutes, according to Het Laatse Nieuws, who received the Array.
Officials laughed “exuberant” as one of them danced and greeted the Nazis, according to a medical report.A blanket covered Chovanec’s face for a while.Chovanec died in the hospital the next day.
His wife, Henrieta Chovancova, said George Floyd’s murder in the United States in May was reminiscent of her husband’s death.”When [the police] saw the blood, they gave him first aid.a lot of people. He couldn’t breathe properly, ” he said.
He fears the case will end and has requested the appointment of a new judge.
A spokesman for the Charleroi prosecutor, who has been investigating the case for two and a half years, told Belgian media that there had been “a delay” due to the coronavirus pandemic, but said all the officials involved had been questioned.
A police source told regional newspaper Sudpresse that the officer who gave the impression of doing the Nazi salute would be fired.
On Thursday, at the time federal police officer André Desenfants said he would temporarily leave his post until an investigation was conducted.
An autopsy revealed that Chovanec had not fed on drugs or alcohol and that his circle of relatives did not know the explanation for his behavior at the airport. He traveled between Slovakia and Belgium, where he ran a company that recruited Slovak personnel for paintings. in structure sites.
On Thursday, Charleroi Mayor Paul Magnette asked Interior Minister Pieter De Crem to read about the case.”I am, like many people, surprised by the photographs of the press,” tweeted Magnette, who is also leader of Belgium’s French-speaking Socialist Party.”This behavior is unacceptable. As for the Federal Police, under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, I ask the Minister of the Interior to do everything possible to soften these acts.