The General Police Inspectorate provided details about the death of Andrei Braguta in a penitentiary. In a press release, this says the young man died from respiratory failure with purulent bronchopneumonia and this fact was confirmed by medical certificates. The bruises that the young man had on the body were the result of aggression on the part of his cell mates, who said that Braguta had a deviant behavior with sexual implications and they felt themselves abused, IPN reports.
The General Police Inspectorate said a team of the Inspectorate on August 15, patrolling the Balti-Sarateni road, spotted a car that was speeding (110 km). The driver ignored the challenge and continued his way counterflow, showing indecent gestures through the window. With the help of another patrol of the Orhei Police Inspectorate, the car was stopped by force in Ratus village of Criuleni district. The driver was handcuffed without being hurt. He had an inappropriate behavior and was escorted to the National Narcology Dispensary for having a sobriety test.
According to the legal examination report issued by the Legal Medicine Center, Andrei Braguta suffered from a chronic and evolving mental disease - paranoid schizophrenia - and was in this mental state when he committed the offense. At the dispensary, he refused to allow taking biological samples from him and insulted the institution’s employees and the police. The Rascani Police Inspectorate took legal action over the refusal. The Ciocana branch of the court of Chisinau municipality on August 18 issued a warrant for the young man’s arrest for 30 days.
As a result, Andrei Braguta was arrested and escorted to the remand prison and while in detention didn’t inform about eventual aggression against him on the part of the police and didn’t ask for medical assistance. Afterward, the remand prison’s employees asked the 903 emergency medical service to intervene given Andrei Braguta’s inappropriate behavior, this being diagnosed with “state of affection”. Owing to his behavior during the next few days, the 903 service was called out for several times, the young man being diagnosed with “psychotic and schizotypal disorder”.
On August 23, the Ciocana branch of the court of Chisinau decided that the arrested should be admitted to the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital and this was hospitalized.
The police determined that Andrei Braguta had been under the supervision of a psychiatrist since 2012 and suffered from a chronic and evolving mental disease - paranoid schizophrenia. Meanwhile, no relevant complaints or applications were submitted to the police and the General Police Inspectorate opened an internal inquiry in order to determine all the circumstances of the case. Confirming evidence will be provided to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The Ministry of Justice also started an internal inquiry into this case, requesting the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate the case of death in Penitentiary No. 16. Deputy Minister of Justice Anatolie Munteanu told a news conference that Andrei Braguta entered the penitentiary system as a patient and medical examinations showed the man needed to be under permanent supervision at the psychiatric hospital of Penitentiary No. 16. Two days later, the young man died.
