Belgium
09:36 23/02/2021
A dozen police officers from the Brussels-Capital Ixelles zone have reported misconduct by colleagues in relation to the arrests made following a prohibited demonstration in January. Their testimonies led to a letter from police union ACOD being sent to Brussels mayor Philippe Close.
According to the officers, minors were brutally beaten in the cells, while innocent by-standers caught up in the demonstration and other young people were held for hours without charge after being detained in the city centre.
In the letter to Brussels mayor Philippe Close, the president of ACOD-Brussels wrote that several mistakes were made in the demonstration against class justice last month, during which 245 people were arrested, including 91 minors. The letter dates from 15 February and deals with the facts of three weeks before that.