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Protest against police violence after Charleroi death in custody

Protest against police violence after Charleroi death in custody
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About 50 people joined a demonstration against police violence in Brussels on Saturday in response to the death of a Slovak man in police custody at Charleroi airport.While the incident happened in February 2018, CCTV video footage only emerged this month, showing several officers putting a blanket over 39-year-old Jozef Chovanec's head and kneeling on his back for more than 15 minutes.The police in the video can be seen laughing and doing dance moves. At one point, one officer makes a Nazi salute towards the cell door.Chovanec was eventually given a sedative and suffered a heart attack. He was taken to hospital, where he died in a coma a fe…

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