#false-arrest

#false-arrest

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed an appeal against awards of €95,000 each to two Italian brothers who a jury found were maliciously prosecuted by gardai following their mistaken arrest in relation to an alleged handbag theft in Dublin. Marco Gambucci, who runs a real estate business in Sardinia, and his brother Luca, a public servant in Perugia, sued Pearse Street, Dublin-based then Garda, now Sergeant Daniel Barry and Garda Jonathan Petrie as well as the Garda Commissioner and the State.

conduct of ICE agents and Border Patrol agents that caused the false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, [and] battery

The complaint alleges that a member of the GEO Group, which owns the facility, allowed Baraka to come inside Delaney Hall's wire gate.