Man arrested for making an "annoying" question to police.

 “Why are you stepping on his belly? You have already arrested him!” A 40-year-old man is arrested because he posed this question to a policemen stepping on the belly of an already immobilized immigrant.

On Saturday 21 July 2012 the 40-year-old man was in his apartment in Athens with his family when he heard shouts from the street. He went outside to see what was going on and he saw 4-5 policemen having arrested an immigrant and one of the policemen stepping on his belly. The immigrant was already immobilized on the street and detained with handcuffs.

Today the 40-year-old man is under arrest for “resisting authority” and “attempting to release a prisoner”. Additional the public prosecutor is charging him with “complicity to robbery” because the immigrant of the story was arrested for stealing the handbag of a woman.

Does it really matter that the man was not in the position to resist a group of 4 policemen? Does it matter that neither the woman nor the policeman claimed the immigrant had a partner? Not really. What it matters is that people will now think twice before they question police practices…The 40-year old father of a 2 years old child likely will be suspended from his duties as a civil servant because of a law saying that even with a accusation of a felony he has to step away from his position until the final decision of his case.This means that he will not receive his salary till at least the case is over.