People collect signatures to fire a policeman, who arrested a blind disabled man in metro

The Internet petition at change.org has already collected more than 7 thousand signatures.

The Investigative Committee is looking into the incident in the underpass of the Minsk metro station Uruchcha.

As was reported by Euroradio, on September 18, police detained there a "blind, disabled man" who was begging. They ill-treated the man, which angered residents of Minsk.

The website of the Investigative Committee reported that the police received complaints about "man with unkempt appearance". A policeman from the metro security unit suggested that the man went to the police station for additional information, but the man refused.

"Expressing aggression, he began to swear at the police officer, insulting and threatening him. When he was taken to the police office for investigation, the citizen actively resisted the officers, biting their hands, hit one of them in the face, trying to kick him and damaged the uniform. To attract attention, he showed false helplessness and inability to move independently," the press service of the Investigative Committee said. Due to this, the Pershamaiski rayon department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him for resisting arrest.

As one of the witnesses wrote, the arrested man had really scratched the hand of one of the policemen. “Today two policemen approached him and started picking on him with no reason, so he didn’t understand what was happening, rebuffed, and scratched the hand of the policeman”, - he noted.