Police probed for taping deportees' mouths aboard flight
Image posted on filmmaker's Facebook page
19 April, 14:23
The story came to light Wednesday when Italian filmmaker Francesco Sperandeo posted on Facebook the photo he took of a plain-clothes policeman standing over a seated man with his mouth taped.
"The indifference of the other passengers" was the worst part, Sperandeo said, adding he was ordered to return to his seat by officers when he requested that the deportees be treated humanely. Sperandeo said he was told that the methods used were "normal".
Thursday, 19 April 2012
(ANSA) - Rome, April 19 - Rome prosecutors opened an investigation Thursday into the case of two Tunisian men being deported from Italy on an Alitalia flight who had their mouths sealed with duct tape and their hands cuffed with plastic bands.
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