Police used a snake to confess a thief | Chronic

Indonesian police confessed to using a snake during interrogation of an inmate in Papua province, in the east of the country, and claimed to have taken disciplinary measures after the broadcast of 39, a video of the incident by social media activists.

The police spokesman for Papua, Suryadi Diaz, reported that they had initiated actions against municipal policemen in the city of Wamena, inside the island of New Guinea, and justified the use of the reptile in the part of the investigation into the arrested persons.

"The municipal police confirmed that it was the fault of the investigators, but this was part of an interrogation"Diaz said during a phone conversation with the news agency EFE.

The video shared on social networks shows a man with gentoo features, accused of a small crime of robbery, hands on his back and a snake around his neck while screaming. The policemen laugh and carry the mouth of the victim. reptile to his face.

The lawyer specializing in human rights, Veronica Koman, said that racism against the local Papuan population is common in this province, where "inhumane treatment" is regularly reported and that there is "inhumane treatment".culture of impunity"

Koman also noted that the use of snakes during interrogations had already been denounced, as well as against activists claiming independence from the provinces of West Papua and Papua.

The western half of the island of New Guinea belongs to Indonesia and is the scene of a conflict of independence which intensified after the beginning of the last five decades, after 1963, when Holland s is removed from the colony of the time. The other eastern half of the island is the Republic of Papua New Guinea.