Police brutality once more in Igoumenitsa: Cops let loose their dog against immigrant
Posted by clandestina on 8 March 2010
Yesterday night between 9 and 10 pm cops in Igoumenitsa some cops patroling along with a police dog came across an Iraqi immigrant, who was known to them, since he had been hospitalised at the local hospital. The Immigrant has lost one lung due to exposure to poisonous gases in Iraq and suffers from heart dislocation. When the cops saw him started making fun of him and then let loose their dog, which assaulted the immigrant, bite him at then knee and injured him, before the cops took it away.
The immigrant’s condition is not severe but he is still at the hospital. People in solidarity are there with him.
Last Tuesday a solidarity demonstration took place in Igoumenitsa. Police’s attitude was very much provocative, in continuity with their repeated assaults against the settlement of immigrants who try to pass to Italy through the town’s harbour.
Source of the info above http://athens.indymedia.org
More about Igoumenitsa’s police hideous precedent here.
clandestina 
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[…] The small town of Igoumenitsa has been known in the past for its racially motivated attacks on immigrants. One such attack occurred on an immigrant with severe health problems who was unable to defend himself when police set their dogs on the man (Police brutality once more in Igoumenitsa: Cops let loose their dog against immigrant). […]