s diagnosed, inter alia, with an injury to the right kidney and a head injury. The hospital report also indicated that the applicant had bruised ribs and bruises on the right side of the back (see paragraph 16 above). The applicant underwent ten days' treatment in the hospital and was released on a condition of subsequent supervision by a urologist and neurologist.
44. In the first place, the Court observes that the Government did not claim that the injuries sustained by the applicant could have dated from a period prior to his being arrested. In response to the findings in the medical reports, the Government put forward several versions of events which could have led to the applicant sustaining at least some of his injuries.
45. In particular, relying on the handwritten statements by the two police officers made on 19 October 2005, the Government argued that the victims of the applicant's crime had attacked him near the police station (see paragraph 30 above). However, the Court is not convinced by that explanation. It firstly notes that that version of events was never raised before the Oktyabrskiy District prosecutor's office and was never examined during the prosecutor's inquiry into the applicant's complaints of ill-treatment. The Court observes, and the Government did not argue to the contrary, that domestic authorities did not take any action against the applicant's alleged attackers, that they were never subject to any form of investigation and were not even questioned about the alleged attack. Furthermore, the Court considers it extraordinary that, in the absence of any official records, in October 2005, that is more than four years after the applicant's arrest, the police officers were able to recollect the exact circumstances surrounding the applicant's transfer to the police station and the names of the victims who had allegedly attacked him. The Court also does not lose sight of the fact that the police officers did not claim that the victims had actually hit the applicant. On the contrary, they insisted that they had opposed the assault.
46. The Court further reiterates the second explanation adduced by the Government, that the applicant had hit his head on the concrete floor when he had faked fainting in the duty room of the police station. The Court considers that the Government's explanation sits ill with the nature of the applicant's injury as recorded in the medical expert report on 13 August 2001 (see paragraph 14 above). While the Court does not exclude the possibility of accidents occurring in detention, it does not lose sight of the expert's finding that the applicant's injuries, including an abrasion to the right side of the head, were caused by "a blunt firm object with a narrow, possibly elongated surface". The Court notes that this description corresponds to physical sequelae from beating with a stick or a rubber truncheon rather than to injuries sustained as a result of a collision with a concrete floor. This finding is also supported by the expert's reluctance to conclude that the injuries could have resulted from a fall. Furthermore, although unconvinced by the Government's argument, the Court still considers it necessary to note that the Government did not provide any explanation why, in the circumstances as described by them, a doctor was not immediately called to the applicant to provide him with medical assistance and to document his injuries.
47. Furthermore, the Government, relying on an extract from a registration log, argued that on 8 August 2001, when already at the Oktyabrskiy District police station, the applicant had injured himself, causing a slash wound to the left forearm and a bruise to the left side of the body (see paragraph 32 above). In this connection the Court accepts the applicant's argument that that extract is of little evidential value as it had been copied b
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