Key legal question
Whether the complaint raised an arguable Article 3 ECHR claim requiring an official investigation
Extracted holding
Yes. The alleged police conduct, if established, was sufficiently serious to amount to degrading treatment and triggered the duty to investigate.
Extracted reasoning
The applicant's allegations were not manifestly incredible and described humiliation, restraint, strip search, and racially charged remarks; such facts, if proven, meet the minimum severity threshold under Article 3.