Five police officers in Italy are placed under house arrest amid inquiry into allegations that they beat and tortured detainees, most of them migrants, according to local media
"If these facts are confirmed, it would be enormously serious," Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi says. / Photo: Reuters Archive
An inspector and four officers in Verona, northeast Italy, are accused of beating and insulting people held in custody,A dozen of their colleagues are also under investigation for having allegedly done nothing to stop the abuse, the report added. Afterwards, they beat him up and dragged him over the floor where he had had to urinate, to punish him.
Such conduct damaged"not just the dignity of the victims but also the honour and the reputation" of thousands of honest police officers, he added.
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