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The victim was selling jewellery on the street when he was assaulted by police in Gran Canaria
The Supreme Court has sentenced two local police officers from Mogán in Gran Canaria to four years and nine months in prison for repeatedly and seriously assaulting an immigrant who was engaged in street vending. Furthermore, convicted of the crime of torture, both officers are disqualified from the force for nine years.
The crimes actually took place back in 2011 and because the legal proceedings took so long, the Supreme Court upheld original the ruling by the Court of Las Palmas but reduced the sentence, which had been set at seven years and six months behind bars.
The High Court has also ordered the defendants to pay 20,745 euros to their victim for the injuries caused, as well 20,000 euros for non-material damage and a further 2,936 euros in compensation.
During the first court case in February 2021, the judge heard that the two plainclothes police officers were patrolling the Puerto Rico Shopping Centre on January 8 2011, where the Senegalese immigrant was selling jewellery on the terrace of a top-floor restaurant. At around 9.40pm, without identifying himself as an officer of the Mogán Local Police, one of the assailants asked the street vendor “to follow him to a secluded place.”
The man’s cousin, also a street seller, had allegedly been injured by officers in similar situation days earlier, and so he admitted that he “felt afraid” and “ran away.”
The officers gave chase through the shopping centre to the basement, where they caught up with the immigrant and he was kicked, punched and beaten with truncheons before being dragged to the police car in handcuffs.
Two witnesses reported that the migrant "screamed in pain and asked for assistance.”
The ferocious beatings reportedly continued back at the station, until two other guards arrived and took over.
A medical exam later revealed that his arm was fractured "due to a strong blow" dealt by one of the officer’s batons.
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