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The established facts state that the defendant mounted the pavement where the people were standing and struck one of them with his vehicle, passing within a few metres of the other.
José Preto accuses Judge Susana Seca of 'intimidation' and insists on a five-and-a-half-month period to inspect the case file, despite having already resigned from José Sócrates's defence after refusing to accept being denied the same time as the Public Prosecutor's Office to review the indictment. The appeal will be decided by the Lisbon Court of Appeal.
The six defendants in the case of the road collapse in Borba, in the Évora district, which caused five deaths in 2018, will face trial again in April after the Court of Appeal ordered the trial to be repeated.
The request had been made by some defendants, including Fernando and Sandra Madureira.
