Cemil and Yasemin  Başöngen

A fifty-year-old Turk and his seventeen-year-old daughter, who live in Germany, were severely beaten by police during their arrest. On February 3, Cemil and Yasemin Başöngen were taken to hospital as a result of injuries sustained by law enforcement officials.

After an argument between Yasemin and her friends, peers called the police squad. According to Сemil, during the investigation of the reasons for the incident, he and his daughter stood on the threshold of their house, talking to the police. The police officers told his daughter to move away, and she began to enter the house. Seeing this, the female police officer pounced on the girl, knocking her down. The father tried to protect Yasemin, but the second policeman hit him several times, as a result of which Dzhemil lost consciousness.

“When they opened the handcuffs and let me see my daughter, her face and hair were covered in blood. Before getting out of the vehicle in front of the police station, they had severely beaten her up. Her cheekbone was broken. Her nose was bleeding. There was no need for this beating. They called an ambulance and took her to the hospital,” said the victim.

Cemil, who has lived and worked in Germany for 20 years, said that after the incident he had to take sick leave for five working days and said he was going to sue the police.