Commander
Zarmaev will be tortured to death by Belgians, not by Russians
Jacqueline de Croÿ - 8 avril 2011
The European Court of Human Rights is "too overworked "
to handle the request filed April 4, 2011 to save the life of the
Commander Arbi Zarmaev, a Chechen warlord, but it responded within
hours the following day to suspend his extradition requested by
Russia.
Amnesty International considered that the commander Arbi was unlikely
to receive a fair trial in Russia, where "he might be tortured."
His "EU-fair" trial has found him guilty of stabbing that
the victim, another Chechen, attributed to an Albanian man. His
detention was extended for 16 months beyond his original sentence,
in view of an extradition that was finally ruled illegal. The humane
conditions of detention guaranteed by EU allowed shackling his hands
and feet behind his back, until the chains open up his flesh to
the bones.
The Minister of Justice gave him access to health care, provided
that he could walk to the infirmary hands and feet shackled on his
bones and flesh. He now forbids his release in reason of the report
of a psychiatrist who found him a "persecution mania"
and has his wounds disinfected with narcoleptics. Minister Declerck
forbids the commander's right of visit from his family and children,
but allowed him to rent a TV!
Dr. Gagliardi, professor at a school of specialization of doctors
and psychologists, met with Commander Zarmaev at his request this
April 5, 2011, in the framework of an evaluation of his psychophysics
condition. He does not believe that a hospitalization in a psychiatric
ward is necessary, as the minister De Clerck claims to have the
right to dictate.
In reading the report of a real expert, one wonders how can a prison
psychiatrist, with such limited specialisation that he disinfects
wounds with neuroleptics, also manages to buy a luxury car...
Psychophysics evaluation
of Commander Arbi Zarmaev
Dr Giorgio Gagliardi - Tuesday, April 5, 2011
We arrived at the prison of Bruges shortly before noon with the
representative of the foundation Princesses de Croÿ and Massimo
Lancellotti and NGOs Morkhoven; Imrat, the representative of an
MEP mandated to enter all prisons and Ayndi and Khedi, the brother
and sister of Commander Arbi Zarmaev. A new lawyer, Terence Halsbergen
and then the lawyer he knows, Thomas Gillis, followed closely behind.
The prison director, Jurgen Van Poeck, arrives. He starts a discussion
with the lawyers and allows them to the visit. The lawyers explain
that I come to see Arbi to assess his psychophysical condition,
at his own written request. The director controls my identity card.
I tell him that Khedi will be the interpreter, because Arbi only
speaks Chechen, Russian and a little Dutch, which I do not understand.
Another discussion begins because Ayndi and Imrat also request their
right of visit. The director explains that Arbi does not want to
see his family because he has lost his reason. He said that the
European mandate is not valid without the authorization of the Minister
of Justice.
Shortly after, a person arrives and presents himself as the general
practitioner, who is appointed as physician to Arbi and he will
show me his medical records. We enter the prison with lawyers. We
arrive in the section "AIBV. The doctor and a nurse put me
in their study. The doctor tells me that Arbi has arrived to the
prison of Bruges from the prison of Hasselt:
"He arrived in a normal state but with very deep wounds and
a lot of pus caused by shackles", he said he had began to treat.
He makes me see that the depth of injuries is of more than one centimetre
with the space between his thumb and forefinger. I asked: "the
bones are visible then?" and he answers in the affirmative.
"Arbi came from the prison of Hasselt with CLOPIXOL treatment,
but he was violent and started treatment of ZYPREXA 10 mg per day."
The doctor told me that Arbi has injured himself at the head and
at different other parts of his body. He said that his blood tests
were good. He showed me a urine test done to look for drug metabolites:
the result is negative and the creatinine level is normal. He said
he eats and drinks normally. I asked what his weight was, but it
was not found in the file.
We left the medical study. The guard opened the cell door in which
there is a peephole in the shape of a small window and that is lined
with bars.
I see Arbi dressed in a blue overall, which covers his body, his
hands and his feet. He is shod. He sits on the bed in a foetal position,
with his legs raised that he swings from right to left. After several
minutes of swinging, he said in a voice loud and clear that he wants
to talk only to Thomas Gillis. He gets up, he walks up and down
the corridor that runs along the bed, swinging his arms, and then
he approached the bars.
There was little light. He has a long beard that frames his face.
I do not see any scars or injury to the skin of his face. I see
that he has sunken eyes, wide open and that he has a fixed gaze.
He waves his arms, not haphazardly, but in a movement that accompanies
the direction of his steps. He speaks a language I do not understand
and I ask what is he saying. The lawyer translated that he wants
to see his family and that the director agrees to it. A guard goes
to fetch shackles to take him to the parlour, but he does not want
the shackles. Then, according to the translation, he asked a belt,
not from the police, but in the apartment. He speaks with Thomas
Gillis, without verbal explosion, always waving his arms.
The current diagnosis is that in the neighbourhood of the AIBV,
Arbi goes from ordinary states of consciousness (SOC) to states
of altered consciousness (SAC) by which he enters in a conditioning
that resembles to a self induced "trance".
His words are spoken at the full power of his lungs (he wants to
see his family; he refuses the shackles, etc.)... There are other
sentences we do not understand, such as "not the police belt,
the apartment." His gaze is constantly fixed. The movements
of his face follow his speech. He is not violent and has no automatic
behaviour.
I tell the director of the prison that the "AIBV" regime
has provoked a state of confusion and he replies:
- He is afraid of extradition;
- He does not speak with his lawyer when he comes;
- He is always alone, (which in this case is a repression) and then
he goes into "trips" to be in peace, until he has thoughts
evoking negative emotions.
The doctor tells me that the psychiatrist, who changed his medication,
has diagnosed a state of confusion.
The brother of Arbi, who has seen him for the last time on March
28, thus eight days earlier, said he was mentally normal and shaved.
He witnessed bruises on the face (possibly hidden by the beard)
and on the body, deep holes in the ankles and wrists and a long
wound on his right arm, in which a tube had been sewn.
NOTE: The Dutch word "apart" happens to be translated
by "apartment" or "a part". The request of a
belt "apart" is likely to be a request to be belted "a
part" or at several levels in order to get around without shackles
on the bones and raw flesh of his ankles and wrists.
I am positive that a change in the regime of life may allow him
to recover and be reintegrate quickly into his family and social
environment.