The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Moldova in the case of Pascari versus Moldova and ordered that it pay damages of €16,000. The plaintiff complained that he was maltreated by policemen during his detention and he did not receive appropriate medical care, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqué from the public association “Jurists for Human Rights”. Eduard Pascari, 41, from Singerei was arrested in April 2006, being suspected of committing a theft. He was taken by four police officers to the Singera mayor’s office and then to the local police commissariat, where the policeman beat him, breaking his jawbone, as he asserted. An ambulance was called to the police commissariat the next day. The doctors ascertained that the mobility of the plaintiff’s jaw was reduced and the left cheek was swallowed. They said the men should be taken to the hospital, but the police officers refused to allow him to go. The man later filed a complaint against the policemen to the Singerei Prosecutor’s Office, but the prosecutors decided that prosecution wasn’t necessary. In 2007, the plaintiff asked the prosecutor general to intervene and reopen the investigation into inhuman treatment. In 2009, the court rejected the man’s application. The ECHR held that Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights was violated and that the investigation wasn’t efficient, especially because it lasted for over five years and the authorities weren’t able to identify the persons to blame.