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EuropePortugal border cops sentenced to jail over death of detained traveller
Catarina Demony
2 minute read
Three Portuguese border officers were sentenced to several years in jail on Monday, in a much-awaited ruling over the fatal beating last year of a Ukrainian man in a Lisbon airport.
The Lisbon court found that Ihor Homeniuk, 42, was kicked, beaten, handcuffed with his hands and legs taped and then left to slowly asphyxiate on the floor of a room at a detention centre at the airport. He had come to Portugal to look for work.
Homeniuk s death sent shock waves across the nation, ultimately leading to the abolishment of the border service last month amid calls from human right advocates to tackle abuses. read more
Lisbon, Portugal – On March 10, 2020, like tens of thousands of Ukrainians before him, 40-year-old Ihor Homenyuk travelled to Portugal.
But he was refused entry at the border, detained in Lisbon’s Portela airport, and scheduled to be deported.
Two days later, he died at a detention centre at the airport after enduring physical abuse, leaving behind two children and a widow.
On Monday, a Portuguese court found three border guards guilty of contributing to his death by causing grievous bodily harm.
Homenyuk’s death was “a direct consequence of the actions of the accused”, said the judge.
“In this sense, the accused did kill Ihor Homenyuk … The agents deliberately treated Homenyuk in a way that was dehumanising, knowing that he was in pain and having difficulty breathing. They left him to his suffering.”
Portuguese border guards jailed over fatal beating © Getty Images The Ukrainian had arrived in Lisbon without a valid visa
Three Portuguese border guards have been jailed for beating to death a Ukrainian jobseeker after he arrived without a valid visa.
The guards kicked, punched and struck Ihor Homenyuk, 40, with batons at a Lisbon airport detention centre last year.
They have been sentenced to between seven and nine years in prison.
The death has shocked the country and forced the government to disband the border service.
Mr Homenyuk, a father of two, arrived in the Portuguese capital without a valid visa in March last year to look for work. He was refused entry, and transferred to a detention centre after refusing to board a flight back home.
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