The Georgian State Inspector’s Office, a newly created independent agency investigating alleged offences committed by law enforcers, has pointed at possible problems at a school, not only at a police station which could have pushed a 15-year-old minor to commit suicide last week.
Situations, which could not have been acceptable or desirable for a child have been revealed at a school. Such situations also took place at a police station,” head of the agency Londa Toloraia told the media after her meeting with the head of parliament's Human Rights Committee earlier today.
The family of 15-year-old Luka Siradze, who died yesterday at a hospital due to injuries he received after attempting suicide on December 11, is accusing the police of exercising psychological pressure on the minor “to make him admit damaging a property of a private school where he studied [before moving to a public school] and writing vulgar phrases on the school wall.”
State Inspector Londa Toloraia has made comments on the case of a minor's death. Photo: fortuna.ge.
Toloraia has dismissed the reports that the case investigator Mariana Choloiani was detained only after the minor’s death.
We were waiting for collecting evidence and as soon as the evidence were present the decision was made. Choloianiwas summoned at the agency at 3 p.m. yesterday [before the death of the manor]. The investigation is in progress and everyone, whose guilt will be revealed based on evidence, will be held accountable. No question marks will remain around the case,” Toloraia said.
She stated that a wide circle of people are being interrogated, including the students of the school where Siradze studied “and we are very cautious in making statements because of the minors’ emotional condition and as that they are minors.”
The detained investigator, who is now in hospital due to health problems, does not admit to making threats against the minor at Didube-Chugureti police station.