[oakhaven]

Reading the article I wondered what you can do/say to the police. Due to this EU "Factsheet" it seems not much:

https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_rights_of_defendants_in_...

edit: ah, that's only for "England and Wales", I misread. Someone's got link on actual EU law extract? (is there even any EU law for this?)

[rostigerpudel]

Criminal law (StGB in .de) and rules relating to proceedings in crime-related investigations (StPO in.de) are not harmonized in the EU, so no, there is no EU law for this.

[gambiting]

There isn't. Each country will have it's own law for dealing with the police, there's not much on the EU-wide level that you could use.

[oakhaven]

You're right. In the portal there are the rights in criminal proceedings described for each country:

https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_rights_of_victims_of_cri...

[LoSboccacc]

not much. EU hasn't got to the point to require strong citizen protections from law enforcement for whatever reason. UK is more similar to the US since uses a similar framework, but many accepted doctrines are quite different in EU even state by state, for example about the allowance of illegally obtained evidence