ARMED ROBBER SUES POLICE AFTER THEY PARADE HIM DOWN STREET WITH TROUSERS DOWN FOLLOWING FOILED BANK ROBBERY
Mail Online
February 24, 2011
An armed robber is suing after police humiliated him having caught him trying to rob a bank.
Phillip Niere walked into Noris Bank in Aachen, west Germany, and threatened to kill five hostages if he did not receive the £200,000 he demanded.
However, he was rumbled when a cashier pushed the silent alarm button and shortly afterwards SAS-trained police surrounded the building.
The 38-year-old surrendered after an hour and he was frog-marched by a police officer down the street with his trousers around his ankles - and his jumper over his head.
Niere, who is due in court tomorrow and is being held in a secure psychiatric facility, was told by negotiators that he would be treated with dignity.
But as this pictures hows he was granted anything buy a dignified arrest.
'The handcuffs are understandable, but what the police have to explain is why he was brought out with his jeans pulled down and his underwear on show,' a lawyer commented.
'It is clearly a breach of his human rights and caused Mr Niere needless humiliation and embarrassment.'
Only last week a Brit received a pay out of £13,000 after he was humiliated by his boss, who, furious that one of his staff had stolen hundreds of pounds from his business, hung a sign saying ‘thief’ around the man’s neck and frog-marched him to a police station.
But while the employee, Mark Gilbert, was let off with a police caution, Mr Cremer spent three months facing a charge of false imprisonment until the case was dropped.
Now, in a further blow, the businessman has paid his former employee £5,000 compensation and covered his £6,000 legal fees in an out-of-court settlement to avoid a hugely expensive civil case for the ‘humiliation’ he suffered.
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