05-14-2007, 16:29 PM
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08.05.2007
Brutal measures
A German father and son describe their moments of horror in the custody of the Tallinn police
The 65-year-old Klaus Dornemann was beaten violently with black jacks in his sides and hands. Lucas Dornemann lost sensation in his fingers for a few days and different parts of his body are still hurting.
- That beating was quite incomprehensible. The policemen were beating those apprehended with black jacks like crazy. There was no logic, they were just having fun and getting a kick out of beating up people, German Lucas Dornemann, 37, and Klaus Dornemann, 67, reminisce about last Friday night.
The father and son, who have been living in Tallinn for a long time, were walking in the port area at 8 PM Friday night, when the police suddenly grabbed them on the street.
- We were going home and we were trying to tell that to the policemen, but they were not listening. There was no-one around us, and there were no riots or fights going on. The men were handcuffed and transported into a big, dirty warehouse in the port area. There were already more than a hundred arrested persons, most of whom were Russian men.
- There were also many old and sick persons, because they must have been the easiest to catch. Less than a half of the whole group were real rioters. Most of them had been captured on the street without any explanation or reason. The people were very afraid. Lucas was held in custody for eight hours while his 65-year-old father Klaus was in custody for more than ten hours.
- Not once were we allowed to go to the toilet at night nor were we given anything to drink. I tried to smoke but got beaten for that. There we were sitting through the night with 200 other people but we were not allowed to talk to anyone or to move. If somebody tried to get up, he was kicked back to the ground. More than 40 policemen kept wandering around in the building to keep an eye on us, Lucas says. More than 800 people were arrested in Tallinn over the weekend.
TIIA RANTALAINEN
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