Seen better from the outside

Schoolboy Andrei Shestopalov was taken to the Sovetskoye District Department of Internal Affairs of Nizhny Novgorod on May 24, 2004 on suspicion of raping his classmate. In one of the offices of the police department, a young man was beaten by five policemen and forced to sign a confession of committing a crime. Doctors recorded a concussion and numerous abrasions in the young man. The district prosecutor's office refused to initiate a criminal case into the beating of a teenager. Now Strasbourg will have to figure out what happened.