The trial of former police officers who arrested Igor Stachowiak – News and information of the country

Men are accused of abuse of power and abuse of an inmate. The family wanted them to be responsible for the death

Igor Stachowiak died in May 2016 after being detained and transported to the police station. According to the doctor's first opinion, the cause of death was acute circulatory and respiratory insufficiency

The investigation into police abuse of power and the inadvertent induction of death from death. Igor Stachowiak was opened by the Wrocław District Prosecutor's Office. However, by decision of the National Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutions were referred to the Poznań Regional Prosecutor's Office

On 20 March of the current year the Wrocław Śródmieście District Court sent indictment against four former police officers who, on the day of Stachowiak's death, served as officers of the police station in the old town of Wrocław. They were accused of exceeding their rights and mistreating a person deprived of their liberty; The prosecution, however, stated that "the evidence gathered during the investigation does not allow for the inadvertent indictment of Igor S.'s death."

During the investigation several dozens of witnesses were interviewed, forensic experts, experts in phonoscopy were appointed. , biology, toxicology, genetics, computer science, fingerprinting and in the field of tactics and intervention techniques. Documents and records from surveillance and mobile phones have also been secured. A trial experience was also conducted for the purpose of the investigation.

Causes of death

According to experts at the death of I. Stachowiak – at the Wrocław Police Station
– probably circulatory and respiratory insufficiency
associated with the use of amphetamines and psychoactive substances:
of experts from the Lodz Medical University, Department of Medicine
Court at the death of Igor Stachowiak with high probability
leads to circulatory-respiratory failure associated with taking
amphetamines and psychoactive substances and caused by this so-called
excited delirium episode. It is a disorder of consciousness combined with
disorientation and lack of distinction between reality and hallucination,
accompanied by unnatural and feverish excitement .

The presence of psychotropic substances
Stachowiak's body confirmed the opinions of experts. – Experts have detected in his
high levels of amphetamine, a drug that, among others,
increases blood pressure as well as tramadol and cathinone. All these
the substances disrupt the nervous system considerably. means
psychotropic, colloquially called afterburner, was also found at p.
Stachowiak, who hid them in her clothes informed the spokeswoman of Attorney General Ewa Bialik

As she informed him, full expert reports were submitted to the court.
with 31 records of evidence, evidence. – Collected material
is the effect of m.in. many investigative experiments and interrogations almost
60 witnesses, several times. Expert Reviews, including those ordered
at the request of the family of the deceased, he is 26 – added the prosecutor Bialik.

She pointed out that, in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
will now evaluate the probative value of the material collected