Police penetrated democrat’s apartment through a window just to hear him using coarse language

Democratic activist Aliaksandar Atroschankau was sentenced to 10 days of arrest by the Central district court of Minsk. Judge Tatsiana Pauluchuk passed the resolution. In court, the police assured that the activist had been arrested for… “coarse language.” Late at night on October 9, police officers burst into the apartment of democratic activist Aliaksandar Atroschankau located on the first storey (!) through a window and searched it. Office equipment, including a computer and information materials on the European March, EU flags and Belarusian national symbols were withdrawn.

The police said they had got an anonymous telephone call saying there was a dead body in the apartment. Nevertheless, the police was interested only in the computers.

It is obvious that the intrusion was politically motivated. Atroschankau left his cell phone on when the police burst in, and we could hear the police threatening him and demanding information materials on the European March. Then the phone was switched off…

The apartment was searched for three hours. Aliaksandar Atroschankau’s wife Dar’ya wasn’t allowed either to enter the apartment or to pass warm clothes to Aliaksandar.

Senior inspectors of the law and order prevention department of the Central district interior department Zmitser Kuralchuk and Anatol Suschenia acted as witnesses in the trial over the democrat.

Thus, authorities stick to arrests of the organizers of the European March, despite the appeals launched by the European Union to stop repressions and let the Belarusian citizens hold the March peacefully.