Évora, Portugal
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The Judicial Police (PJ) announced the arrest of a man in compliance with an international arrest warrant. They also stated that the fraud crime that led to the warrant occurred in 2022, in Brazil.
Évora will be the European Capital of Culture in 2027.
The arrest occurred following an arrest warrant issued by Brazilian judicial authorities for the crime of fraud.
In Évora, the PS leader, José Luís Carneiro, accuses the Government of a “lack of democratic humility” regarding the labour agreement. He criticises the timing of the meeting and says the deadlock “is becoming expensive for the country”.
The man was hired to organise weddings, but close to the date, the victims would realise there was no service at all. He promised to return the money, but blocked the victims and disappeared.
The suspect promised to return the money, but “blocked all the victim's contacts and disappeared.”
The man allegedly defrauded several people by posing as the owner of an events company and entering into fake contracts.
The Ministry of Infrastructure acknowledges that the service is limited by the “reduced availability of carriages.”
A concert, a comedy show, the opening of an urban art installation and the launch of a petition will mark, on Friday, the start of the countdown to the opening of the European Capital of Culture Évora_27.
Concerts, comedy, street art and even a public petition calling for an “antidote to acceleration” mark the start of the countdown to Évora_27 on Friday. The initiatives have free admission.
