State Inspector: 'investigator exerted pressure on 15-year-old boy who later committed suicide'
Photo from the ‘silent rally’ organized by the civic movement Shame (Sirtskhvilia). Members of the movement brought Luka Siradze’s desk and chair to the Interior Ministry’s building on December 18, 2019.
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State Inspector Londa Toloraia says her office has evidence Investigator Mariana Choloiani exerted psychological pressure on Luka Siradze, a 15-year-old boy who later committed suicide.
The State Inspector’s Service has gathered evidence, which proves that Choliani placed psychological pressure [on Siradze] leading to the suicide attempt of Siradze, aged 15, who died at M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital two days after the suicide attempt”, Toloraia said.
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Toloraia said she is confident that the court will reveal the truth and deliver a guilty verdict against the investigator and other law enforcers who were also involved in the investigation process of the minor’s case.
Tbilisi City Court sent Choloiani to detention for exerting pressure on Luka Siradze on December 19, 2019.
Choloiani allegedly forced the minor to admit to having damaged the property of a private school in Tbilisi and writing vulgar phrases on its walls on December 13, 2019.
The Georgian State Inspector’s Office has sent the criminal case of prosecutor Mariana Choloiani, who is charged with exercising pressure on a minor to confess, to the court for deliberation.
State Inspector Londa Toloraia, who is investigating causes behind the death of 15-year-old Luka Siradze, says that investigator Mariana Choloiani, who has been sent to pretrial detention, made threats to the minor that if he had not admitted to the crime his brother would have had problems.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has responded to the death of 15-year-old Luka Siradze, who jumped from the ninth floor of a building after being subjected to alleged psychological pressure at Didube police station in Tbilisi, saying that “we must make major changes to avoid such tragedies.”“The death of a 15-year-old boy is a big tragedy for the state. I share the hard moments with the family and wish them to stand strong in this very difficult time,” Zurabishvili wrote.
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