“The reason we are here is the death of a Slovak man in a Belgian police cell”, said Vladimír Bilčík (EPP, Slovakia) on Tuesday 20 October, introducing the European Parliament debate on police violence in the EU.
No light has yet been shed on the case involving Jozef Chovanec, a Slovak citizen who died in February 2018 after being restrained by the Belgian federal police in a cell at Charleroi airport.
The case was “covered up” - as several MEPs criticised on Tuesday - until the...