Public prosecutor's office investigates police incident
A journalist from Lucerne photographed police officers trying to arrest a woman in Lucerne on Sunday. Because he was unable to identify himself immediately, the police took him to the police station in handcuffs. According to the journalist, they deleted his pictures there.
Kurt Graf, media spokesman for the Lucerne police, confirmed the incident on Sunday evening at the Franciscan church when asked. However, he could neither confirm nor deny whether the photos in question were actually deleted from the journalist's digital camera. The journalist described the incident on the online platform Lu-elections.ch. When asked, he said that the deleted images would "seriously incriminate" the police. Police spokesman Graf said that the incident with the journalist was now being investigated. Also whether the arrest of the woman was proportionate or not. Lucerne public prosecutor Andrea Tresch told Radio Pilatus that the public prosecutor's office had launched an investigation to clarify the incident. She now had to gather information and then decide who and how many police officers would be investigated. (SDA)
