The footage shows people lying on the ground in handcuffs
A video of last year’s summer protests with footage of police violence against protesters was broadcast during a meeting of the temporary parliamentary committee investigating the case, as well as the illegal wiretapping of citizens.
The video shows violence against protesting citizens on the evening of July 10 near the columns of the Council of Ministers building. Interior Ministry officials kicked, detained and punched detained detainees.
The footage shows policemen who are angry and washing their faces and eyes with water. Beatings and other unacceptable acts by the uniformed against citizens, who are handcuffed on the ground, can be seen.
“If these people were prisoners of war, such treatment of them would be a violation of the Geneva Convention,” said the chairman of the commission. Nikolai Hadjigenov (IBGNI).
Hadjigenov said the footage had been wanted by NSO cameras for two months, and that there had been all sorts of attempts to keep it out of the public eye for the past 13 months.
The disk, which contains the recording from the camera, was discovered with the assistance of Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov. They found him in a drawer in the SDVR, Hadjigenov explained to the media.
He pointed out that initially the head of the NSO, Emil Tonev, replied that the service did not have camera recordings at the columns of the Council of Ministers, but his deputy said that he could only provide them to the bodies for protection of national security and the judiciary.
“Such concealment of evidence of a crime is a crime in itself,” he said.
He addressed President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Stefan Yanev with a question about the behavior of the head of the NSO, saying that if the answer was yes, he would ask: “How long will Emil Tonev be the head of the NSO?”
According to him, it is a crime that the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Interior did not find police violence against citizens during their inspections. He added that the victims had accusations from the prosecutor’s office, but it was also established that their detention was illegal.
Hadjigenov announced that the recordings would be sent to the LIBE commission and the Council of Europe, along with an interim report on the commission’s work.
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