Ali Hussein, 24, got into a car accident on Newroz, fracturing his hip and one of his shoulders. His family claims to have tried to file a report for five days and that the police kept insisting that he needed to file the complaint himself.
“They said the boy, meaning me, must come himself. I have a hip plate, how can I get there? The police would not come here. It is less than five minutes away. They could have just come and taken my statement,” Ali Hussein told Rudaw’s Hunar Hamid on Thursday.
Hussein Hassan, Ali’s father, says that he has filed a complaint in Baghdad against the treatment his son was subjected to.
“In Arabic they say ‘the police is at the service of the people.’ Do I have to serve them or do they serve me? I went there for five consecutive days,” said Ali’s father.
Diyala’s police directorate told Rudaw that they will be launching an investigation into the accusations, and that the head of the police station will need to appear before court if the claims are proven to be accurate.
