An armed robber is suing police after they paraded him down a street in his boxer shorts after a bungled bank raid. He was marched down the road with his trousers around his ankles and jumper over his head after holding customers hostage for more than an hour. The robber had walked into a branch of the Noris Bank in the west German city of Aachen with a revolver and demanded more than £200,000. But a cashier pushed the silent alarm and minutes later the building was surrounded with SAS-trained police commandos. The man surrendered after an hour when police negotiators convinced him he'd be treated with dignity. "The handcuffs are understandable, but what the police have to explain is why he was brought out with his jeans pulled down and his underwear on show," said a lawyer. "It is clearly a breach of his human rights and caused him needless humiliation and embarrassment." The 38-year-old man is due in court tomorrow. Source: orange.com