LIMA, June 23 (UPI) -- Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman held in Lima in the killing of a Peruvian woman, has filed a complaint alleging police misconduct that violated his rights.
Van der Sloot, 22, who also is suspected in the 2005 disappearance of an American teenager vacationing in Aruba, alleges chief homicide investigator Miguel Angel Canlla and other police personnel illegally pushed him to incriminate himself, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reported Wednesday.
The Dutch national is charged in the May slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose body was found in a Lima hotel room. Van der Sloot was arrested in Chile early this month.
He allegedly confessed to killing Flores. However, in his complaint he alleges he was arrested without proper warrants, deprived legal counsel and had an official translator imposed on him "with the intention of pressuring" him to confess, a document obtained by Peruvian television news program "24 Hours" reported.
Van der Sloot is under 24-hour watch in a high-security prison while he awaits a judge's decision on his request that his confession be set aside as coerced.
Van der Sloot told authorities in Chile, where he was apprehended, that intruders were responsible for Flores' death.
