Lawyer Vitalie Taulean said four clients of his who were unjustly convicted of hooliganism by the Sangerei Court last November were acquitted by the Appeals Court. In a news conference at IPN, the lawyer stated that the men were accused of acts of hooliganism that they didn’t commit. His clients were held in jail for three months and were recently acquitted by the Balti Appeals Court.

Vitalie Taulean said that everything started over two years ago when two inebriated police officers entered the court of one of his clients, where there were the other three men, and attacked the house’s owner. As a result of the aggression, the four men were sued. “The case had been examined for two years. These persons were subject to indescribable suffering given that they served time in jail being innocent,” stated the lawyer.

According to Vitalie Taulean, the police officers went to the man’s home when they were informed that the four stole metal from the local depot. The given accusations could not be substantiated and there were no witnesses to confirm them. The false statements of the policemen that were presented in court were accepted as truthful.  The defendants provided incontestable evidence proving their innocence, but these weren’t taken into account.

The four men said the case in which they were accused of hooliganism was fabricated. They were pressed by the judge, prosecutor and the police officers from Sangerei to renounce the services of Vitalie Taulean. One of the four former convicts said that he suffered four cardiorespiratory arrests when he was in jail, but he was given no drugs until a certificate showing that he has been monitored at the National Medical Diagnosis Center for seven years was provided.

The men’s lawyer said he will go to the European Court of Human Rights and will insist that the judge from Sangerei who convicted the four men should be tried. According to him, his clients stayed in jail between November 19, 2015 and February 26, 2016.