Opposition Leader Lennox Linton has registered his grievances following an incident where policemen arrested and subsequently released Roseau North MP Danny Lugay. Linton said Lugay was on Saturday returning from a funeral service but his car was stopped by policemen close to the residence of PM Roosevelt Skerrit in Morne Daniel.
He said Lugay asked the policemen what the problem was but an officer who identified himself as Sebastian dragged the member of parliament out of the car and hustled him to a waiting police car which reversed at the “driveway leading to the mansion of the prime minister” before driving him away to police headquarters.
Linton said Sebastian also accosted him in a “threatening way” and pointed directly at his face, warning him to back off because he was obstructing the officers in doing their job.
“So I said to him, ‘I don’t know what obstructing you mean, I was in this vehicle on the public road and I’ve come out of the vehicle to see what you are doing with my colleague Danny Lugay and you are telling me that I am obstructing you,” Linton said he told the police officer.
The opposition leader said Lugay did not commit any crime by driving on a public road, and the manner in which the officers handled the parliamentarian is insulting and suggestive of witch-hunting. He said he is going to take the matter up and Lugay also swore to have his day in court over the police harrassment.
In his own account, Lugay said the policemen drove him to their headquarters for questioning over claims that they had intelligence reports that some people were “posing a threat to the prime minister’s residence”. He said he was later released by the police but insisted that he would press charges for the way he was assaulted.
“…but that physical assault on me, somebody has to pay; we are going to court,” Lugay stated.
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