No plans for criminal probe of police holding cell death
Eastern Finland Police said there was no evidence of any criminal act in the death of a man in Kotka last September.
Kotka police station, where a man died while in custody last year.
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Eastern Finland Police Department will not launch a preliminary criminal investigation into the death of a man while in police custody last year, it announced on Friday.
The department said there was no reason to suspect that a crime had been committed in relation to the man's death.
The 30 year-old man died while being held at the police station in the southeastern city of Kotka in September 2020.