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Lipsic: Police Intervention Against Hauliers to Be Investigated
Thursday 29 July 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, July 29 (TASR) - An Interior Ministry inspection will look into police action against hauliers demonstrating against the new electronic road-toll system at the beginning of 2010, Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic said at a briefing on Thursday.
"The information that we have is serious, and that's why I've decided to have it investigated," he said.
Lipsic said that the hauliers were decent people. "The police should protect them and not bully them under any pretext. The police should go after dishonest people, villains and road pirates, and should always take the side of decent people," he stated. He thinks that the hauliers were right to express their opinions in the form of a strike. "It was a matter of basic justice, because the way in which the electronic road-toll system was set was unfair," he said.
The inspection will not only look into how the police dealt with the hauliers, but also with their sympathisers. There were around 1,000 cases in which the "steps taken were inappropriate and mainly false", stated Lucia Janovic from the Citizen for Active Democracy association.
Lipsic said that if the inspection finds that breaches of the law took place, action will be taken against individual police offices. In addition, people who were fined illegally will be able to get their money back.
Lipsic doesn't know when the results of the inspection may be available.
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