In Athens Greece police officer assaulted a woman photographer ,during anti-austerity protest. Athens newspaper Kathimerini said that the officer was charged with unprovoked bodily harm, verbal abuse and violent behavior. The officer works for riot police,but they wouldn’t named him.
The photographer, later identified as Tatjana Bolari ,who works for the Athens News Agency, claimed that the hit cause her to loose a tooth. Other members of the press also said that they had been attacked and have filed a suit against the police.
POESY- the journalists federation said that the attack was “barbaric” and invited the police to take part in a seminar on October 12, on the issue of the police and human rights.Five months ago another journalist-Manolis Kypraios, lost his hearing after a police stun grenade went off next to him while he was covering a protest.
Other police officers were also seen on videos and in photos assaulting people without provocation, during those protests.Those assaults were condemned by the government in statements, but for which none of the officers were arrested or charged with any misconduct.
Police have said they were just defending themselves and that they’ve had chunks of marble and Molotov Cocktails tossed at them during the protest.Although that was the official statement from the police, people claimed that they were beaten and attacked without any reason.
Sad case,Gatineau police officer Pierre Francois Blais assaults 73 year old woman then kills her son according to witnesses.
Gatineau cop violated a man’s Charter rights when he shot and killed him in 2008, according to a litany of charges filed under Quebec’s Police Act.
On June 29, 2011 — one day past the three-year anniversary of David Leclair’s death and just five days after the Leclair family launched a $430,000 civil suit against the officer and the city — the province’s police ethics commissioner slapped mall cop Pierre-Francois Blais with 10 charges.
Though he remains on active duty, he was unreachable for comment Wednesday.
“It’ll never bring David back, it never should have happened to begin with,” Leclair’s sister, Donna told the Sun Wednesday. She is still pressing for a public inquiry into her brother’s death.
A 35-year-old single father who was well-known to police, Leclair was shot three times outside his mother’s Aylmer, Que. home after Blais responded to a domestic complaint involving Leclair’s ex.
In February 2007, Leclair pleaded guilty and was handed an 11-month sentence for fraud.
Separate fraud and assault charges from 2006 were stayed, and he was also due to appear in court later in 2008 on theft and fraud charges.
On the day of Leclair’s death, Blais had followed him into his mother’s home, beat him with a club and pepper-sprayed him before shooting him three times outside, including once in the back. Blais said LeClair grabbed a crowbar in the confrontation but witnesses say he was unarmed.
The officer also struck Leclair’s then 73-year-old mother, Dorothy, in the leg with his baton and, according to witnesses, threatened to shoot her and LeClair’s brother Robert if they intervened.
“Personally, I would love him to have jail time, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen at this point,” Donna said.
Blais, the son of chief justice of the Federal Court of Appeal Pierre Blais, was cleared in 2009 of any criminal wrongdoing after a provincial police investigation.
The latest charges, which stem from a formal complaint filed to the police ethics commissioner, allege Blais acted carelessly and recklessly in his dealings with Leclair, used obscene or offensive language, displayed a lack of respect or courtesy, abused his authority, and violated Leclair’s Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person.
Blais is also charged with using excessive force against Leclair’s mother, along with four other charges.
“Will this bring us closure? I don’t know, but I hope it helps … Something is better than nothing right now,” Donna said. “We’ll see how it plays out.”
No hearing date has been set yet.
The charges against Pierre-Francois Blais:
1. Acted carelessly and recklessly in his dealings with Leclair
2. Using obscene or offensive language
3. Displaying a lack of respect or courtesy
4. Abusing his authority
5. Violated Leclair’s Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person
6. Using obscene or offensive language in his dealings with Dorothy Leclair
7. Displaying a lack of respect or courtesy
8. Excessive force
9. Making threats
10. Failing to prevent or contribute to preventing justice from taking its course
What I want to know is who writes the stories on this website, seriously 25% of almost every story is written so poorly that it doesn’t make sense. I am starting to wonder if they are adding info to make these stories worse,from previous stories they found on the internet. Time to Google search some of these stories to read them properly and understand what’s being said. Think they need a new writer or a proof reader. I only have a high school education, I can only imagine what highly educated people think of these poorly written stories here.
Personly , I don’t think that how the story is written has sqaut to do with the fact that this is another blatant case of police abuse of power. First of all , when did police officers start serving and protecting police officers? Next they will afford themselves as well as be affored the excuse to treat people like domestic terrorist right in our own homes. Face the fact that killer cops despite how dispicable are simply granted the right to waste people. I am sick of it yet believe that God will soon make it known that he in no way endorses killers period. So please stop glorifying them because although some are good or even great they still are imperfect and many times these imperfections take lives. Know one in America knows this better than Afro-Americans and hispanics.