Sister Of Niasvizh Hanged Man: It’s The Police, They Are Covering Up For Themselves

The police officers refuse to show the video record of what happened inside the police service car, to the relatives of the deceased.

As Radio Liberty has learnt, the resident of the Niasvizh district who died in the police car lived in the village of Slaukava. This was 48-year-old Siarhei Abramovich. His fellow vollagers strongly doubt the version of suicide. The journalists talked with the sister of the victim, Iryna Rusak.

“It all happened on November 29. My brother came home, and had a serious raw with our father,” the sister of the deceased man tells. “Father called the police on him. They arrived, and took him away. I saw everything. Then they drove him in the direction of the village of Yushevichy (Niasvizh district – edit.). Why not to the police station in Niasvizh? This is a good question.”

Siarhei Abramovich’s funeral took place on December 2. It was the police officers themselves who told the family he was dead.

“I saw no traces of a rope on my brother’s body,” Iryna Rusak adds. “The investigator came in the evening, and said my brother had done it all by himself. They called me, convinced. They looked for the suicide note but didn’t find any. There was no note. Now they are checking the incident, the investigator asked me who could be guilty of my brother’s death. They asked my opinion. I told them I blame the police.”

In the three weeks that have passed since the death of Siarhei Abramovich, the number questions from his relatives has only increased. The main ones, why the detainee was left in the police car alone, and where the recordings from the video camera installed in the car had gone.

“They told me that he had hanged himself on a bootlace,” says the victim’s sister. “But how is it possible? But even if it was a bootlace, let's admit it happened. Why did they leave him alone then? According to the rules they cannot leave detainees alone in the car. There was a new car, UAZ Patriot, with a camera inside the cabin. The recording was on. I was not shown any records. Only silence in response.

According to Iryna, she found minor injuries on her brother’s body. He had a beaten-up face.

“There was a small cut on the left side of my brother’s face. The pathologist told me that my brother's face was damaged, he was beaten a little. Before burial, they did make up to disguise it. But still there was a scar, about a centimeter. But even if he hanged himself, surely no one heard anything? Is everybody deaf? No one heard anything, no one saw anything. The police told me that they had lost sight of him.”

Official representative of the administration of the Investigatory Committee of Belarus in the Minsk region Tatsiana Belanoh confirmed that the incident occurred on November 29 in a police car. When asked if it was a suicide, Tatsiana Belanoh said that the circumstances of the incident and the cause of death are now being investigated. The Niasvizh district department of the Investigatory Committee is conducting a check. “A forensic examination was appointed to find out the exact cause of death of a man born in 1969, the investigation collects the necessary materials.”