Constitutional Court (AYM) issued 20 thousand TL moral compensation to be paid to Pınar D., who was wounded in the eye due to a rubber bullet shot by the police.
The police had intervened the protest demonstrations organized in Çukurova University in 2007 with rubber bullets; one bullet injured Faculty of Architecture student Pınar D. by being shot right in her eye. The investigation opened against the police officers have concluded with non-prosecution; in a prosecution at Tarsus Assize Court following objection, the defendant police officers have been acquitted due to both the offense and the offender not being able to be proven.
AYM, on the other hand, issued that the security forces haven’t taken necessary measures so that the applicant would not be affected by the intervention; and that the police have caused the injury of the applicant by using the rubber bullet gun uncontrolled, without precise targets, during the intervention. The court issued that the material dimension of the ban of mistreatment, which violates human dignity, was violated.
The court verdict further indicated that the Prosecutor’s Office did not take any action on the file besides including occasional security summaries organized to identify the offender in the file; that the case was concluded with acquittal due to being filed without the offender being identified, that the lack of conclusion in the investigation after more than ten years despite the permanent search warrant issued within the investigation started following the criminal complaint made by the assize court for the identification of true offender/s, and that the rubber bullet must have been able to be tracked back to the police officer who used the gun.
31.07.2018
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