- 25 Instead, it emerged from an examination of the specific file (reference B13/2184) provided to the delegation that the Athens Public Prosecutor had asked the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Hellenic Police (IAD) to: “Please conduct a preliminary investigation informing us as to whether you or other services are aware of relevant complaints regarding ill-treatment of detainees at Police Stations or Security Police Stations and, more specifically, at Kypseli and Omonia stations”. Asking the question in this form enabled the police services to which the Prosecutor’s request was addressed to respond simply that the allegations raised by the CPT had not been the subject of pre-existing complaints of which they were aware. 33. Nonetheless, in its response to the Public Prosecutor’s request, the IAD submitted a 10-page letter to the Public Prosecutor (dated 16 April 2014, reference number 3021/8/1234-n), reminding the Prosecutor of another 34 cases in which similar allegations of serious ill-treatment had been investigated by the IAD and that the investigative files had been returned to the Prosecutor for further action. In the light of the above information, the delegation decided to further examine the nature and quality of the action taken by the Public Prosecutor in relation to the 34 cases of alleged illtreatment of which it had been reminded by the IAD. 34. By way of example, reference might be made to case number 4 of 34 (reference number Δ 2013/1995), concerning allegations of assault by police officers on a group of people being transferred from the Amygdaleza Pre-departure Centre to Athens Airport on 27 June 2013. The persons concerned stated that they were held at the airport for around two hours, after which they were returned to another immigration holding centre (“Hellenikon”). The Public Prosecutor’s file records that the persons concerned alleged that they had suffered “torture and inhuman treatment by police officers” and that they had been “beaten with punches and kicks, very forcefully”. Two of the group claimed that an “electric shock device” had been used on them, and that their religion had been insulted by police officers.26 When shown photographs, they identified four named police officers whom they alleged were involved in their ill-treatment. The file contains highly-specific allegations against the police officers that the deportees had identified from official photographs. For example: DA stated: “Two policemen beat me with kicks and punches. After a while another policeman arrived and hit me with an electric device, including on the genitals. There was blood running from my lips and I was hit on the same eye on which I had received a blow when leaving the Amygdaleza Centre.” HW stated: “We were beaten for about one and a half hours; I had blood coming out of my mouth.” WI stated: “My long hair was pulled, and a bunch of my hair was pulled out. He hit me, my nose was broken and I was told to pour water on it. My shirt was full of blood.” 26 Phrases such as “you Muslims should fuck off; you and your stupid Ramadan” were used.