“Narodnaya Volya”: Militiaman raped a student patrolling Minsk
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15:31, — Society
It happened in the Minsk center on 8 March. Junior student of a Belarusian university was returning home from a pizzeria. She was stopped by a militia officer ion uniform and asked to get into a militia car. The girl was raped in the militia car...
– When my friends and I left a pizzeria, it was about half past ten, – Volha tells to “Narodnaya Volya” (the name of the heroine of this wild story is changed for an obvious reason). – My friends went home by underground, and I walked. A militiaman in uniform stopped me in a Minsk central street and asked me to follow him. I didn’t think anything bad may happen and followed him surely enough. He offered to get into the car and sat down himself.
Two men in uniform were in front seats. But they got out of the car, and he raped me. Of course, I did my best to resist. One can talk in theory what must be done in such situations, but everything is different in reality...
When the two militiamen came back, they opened the car door to me, and drove away... I managed to get home. I cried away at first. Then I called my friend and told her everything. We called for emergency ambulance and militia. I identified the militiaman. He and his partner were patrolling the district that night...
I was insistently offered to withdraw my claim from the militia in order not to stir up a conflict. The man who raped me asked me to be sorry for him and understand him, he said he had a little kid and a pregnant wife... He is about 30 years old.
His two partners defend him as witnesses. They say he hadn’t raped me. Though militiamen on duty are not allowed to get strangers into a car. The rapist says he admits his offence, allegedly it happened by my agreement. But it is lie!
A call to an investigator
“We are not going to disclose the case,” an investigator in the case said, referring to secrecy of the investigating.
A call to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
One of the main rules of journalism is to allow both parties to speak out. So “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper called to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and asked to tell the contact information of the “main hero.” They answered: he didn’t work for us any more. “After the check he was dishonourably discharged,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
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