Search Held At Place Of Ivatsevichy Dweller Who Complained About Beating By Police

Siarhei Dyliuk stated that he had been beaten up by policemen, who pressed him to own to the theft that had not been committed by him.

A search was held in the flat of Siarhei Dyliuk, a dweller of Ivatsevichy, who stated that policemen had been beaten him up. He says that he is accused as a thief. At the moment the Investigation Committee does not comment on the statements of Dyliuk concerning battery by policemen, Radio Svaboda informs.

Over a week ago Siarhei Dyliuk, who claimed to be beaten up by the policemen, was discharged from the Ivatsevichy hospital.

Dyliuk lives in a private housing in Ivatsevichy near the Ivatsevichdrev company. The house is modest with little furniture. The house owner is unemployed and says that he lives from taking odd jobs.

“After being in the hospital I feel a bit better, but I can’t get back to the norm, anyway. I feel shaky and dizzy,” – Siarhei Dyliuk commented on his condition.

After release from the hospital, he was summoned to the police station for questioning:

“Criminal Investigator Kuryatnik came to me and told that we should go to the police station for one hour. He summoned me in the morning and I came back home only around 5 p.m. I was accused of stealing a neighbor's TV-tuner. They told that there was the TV-tuner which I stole and sold to a certain Fomich. Who is Fomich? I don't even know who it is,” – Dyliuk tells.

Dyliuk says that he wasn’t beaten up during the interrogation this time. But he “signed all the papers that they were drawing up out of fear”. The man told reporters that during the interrogations he had incriminated himself out of fear of being beaten up.

Siarhei Dyliuk’s house was searched last week:

“They found nothing. Policeman was going about the house, searching, turning the house upside down. There should be a prosecution warrant to search the house. But no paper was demonstrated to me. They hustled everything that could be hustled, upset everything in the house but found nothing.”

Siarhei Dyliuk says that he wasn’t shown a prosecution warrant prior to the search of the house.

“They came to me and said that I would be an identifying witness. They searched his house but found nothing. They wrote something and we signed [the paper]. No, I didn’t read what I was signing because I can’t read, I don’t see [because of weak sight]. So they [the policemen] said that here, look, here is what we are searching for. They searched the house and found nothing,” – Mikhail Yatchenya, a neighbor of Dyliuk and an identifying witness, says.

Pensioner Yatchenya pictured his neighbor Siarhei Dyliuk not the best person. He told journalists that Dyliuk was often dunk, though, according to Dyliuk himself, he was drinking very rarely.

Chief Information and Public Relations Inspector of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus in and for the Brest region Maryna Drankova said that the information relating to the police statement by Siarhei Dyliuk is being verified. The results of the check will be announced later.