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STC 33/2024: Assaults in police custody
Injury and integrity
Constitutional Court · STC 33/2024
Issue examined
The appeal concerns the orders of the Provincial Court of Almería and a court of first instance and investigation of Vera that closed their complaint for the offences of illegal detention, torture and injury.
Summary published by the Constitutional Court
Violation of the right to effective judicial protection, in relation to the right to physical and moral integrity: insufficient investigation of a complaint of assaults reported to have occurred in police custody (STC 12/2022).
ECLI:ES:TC:2024:33
The file retains the distinction between violation and alleged violation used by the source. In order to know the judgement, the grounds and the individual votes must be consulted the full resolution.
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NegligenceSelf-defenceTreachery in the commission of an offenceDeliberate infliction of unnecessary sufferingCivil liability arising from an offenceBodily injuryPrivate prosecution by the victimReporting an offencePreliminary investigative proceedingsAbbreviated criminal procedureTrial hearingWitness reporting information received from othersCivil claim within criminal proceedingsAcquittal