November 5, 2010
Charles Thorp covered the protests in Viedma by a trigger-happy event ten days ago. Yesterday was illegally detained and tortured.
Charles Thorp has 19 years, photographer and lives in Viedma, Rio Black. His images show the notes of most of the media covering issues in the region. Yesterday, while leaving a concert, was intercepted by the police of Rio Negro, detained and tortured in a police station. From the hospital, where he is hospitalized with skull and two cracked ribs, burned his hands and internal injuries, Carlos claimed that it was a brutal reprisal for their work.
His captors had sworn it: a few days before the crackdown had uncovered a group of residents protesting the assassination of William Trafiñanco, the teenager who died was 16 years old shot in the back by a policeman on 25 October. Charles had gone to the scene and had pictures that depict both the indignation of the neighbors, like police to suppress the confessions.
Yesterday, ten days after that event, went to a group Damas Gratis recital at the Disco Tropical Tattoo. He left at 5:30 with three friends. Outside there were some incidents. They were leaving, but police said a motorcycle. "This is the press," shouted the officer. The friends realized. "Come here to kill us," said one. But there was no time, five cops jumped on the young man went on beating him into a van and took him to the station 34. When swung a rifle butt hit him in the jaw and other blows that left him unconscious.
He woke up leaning against a fence. He had been tied seal and taking a mate about it. "That hit me with truncheons and I put things in the year. As I told you sos "so that you get your pics to the newspaper?" He told Time Carlos Argentino.
One of the policemen ordered to sign a form stating that he had participated in a riot. "You're a NN here," he said to convince him. But Charles did not sign. "Then I made my bow and trigger three times in the head in different positions. The police set and pulled the trigger again charger. At one point he said: Hit me a shot and let us the fuck '. "
With that order the beating escalated and the cops decided to sign him: he was caught between two heated in a stove roll for fingerprinting and I burned all the fingers.
few minutes later, a medical examiner told police that he had nothing, and he was drunk.
At 9:30 am, following a move to another police station and several strokes, Carlos was released. His family took him to a hospital, where he was admitted, and then filed the complaint. As he urinated blood, as well as recover from the shock, doctors expected the test results. From his bed, Carlos defined his situation with few words. "I love my job," he said. And I'll keep going. "
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