Minsk police to investigate incident at metro station Pyatroushchyna (video)

Minsk police will investigate the incident that involved the police and an elderly man with a cane at the metro station Pyatroushchyna, Minsk City Executive Committee press sectary Alyaksandr Lastouski reported in social networks.

“The incident in the metro will be investigated. More details will be reported tomorrow,” he wrote.

A video of the incident that occurred on April 28 appeared in the Internet, Euroradio reported. The video showed a policeman beating an elderly man and his dog. The policemen wanted to make the man leave the station because homeless people were not allowed to stay in the metro, witnesses said.

A woman helped the beaten man stand up and leave the underpass.