29-year-old Bangladeshi migrant found dead in Athens police station

By Ahmet Gencturk

ATHENS (AA) – 29-years old Bangladeshi migrant found dead in a police station in central Athens, as reported by police and local media on Tuesday.

Greek Police (EL.AS) said this morning in a statement that police officers found a foreigner, who was arrested previous night for causing damage to a patrol vehicle, hanged in the detention area of the police station in the central area of Omonia.

The foreigner was in the detention area together with -11- other prisoners, the police maintained, adding the competent prosecutor's cffice has been informed about the case and a case file is being prepared by the Attica Security Directorate.

Later various news outlets, broadcaster and dailies argued that it was a 29-year-old man, originally from Bangladesh, is reported to have been found hanged at the station.

Commenting on the matter to the daily To Vima, the president of the rights group Movement United Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (KEERFA) Petros Constantinou, said, he had visited the Omonia station himself, and the officers there at the time told him that the damage to the patrol vehicle was a broken rearview mirror.

The group also issued a statement and claimed, “The government’s racist and repressive policies have turned police stations into morgue lobbies.”

“Police report a suicide in a cell inside a detention center where 11 other detainees were being held. Did no one notice in the slightest that someone next to them was ending his life? How did detention turn into death,” it added.

The incident came days after death of Pakistani migrant Mohammad Kamran Ashiq in the central Agios Panteleimonas police station, which provoked strong reaction by left-wing parties and migrant associations.