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The Public Prosecutor's Office alleges that the young men shared in a nightclub at least one of several recordings made while they were committing the offences.
The man fled south after the crime but was arrested on the same day by the Judicial Police. He will be brought for an initial interrogation at the Department of Investigation and Penal Action in Lisbon.
The arrested man is 71 years old. The victim is 39 and has an intellectual developmental disorder.
Suspect was detained in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region.
The suspect fled with his three-year-old daughter after visiting his ex-wife's home on 19 January.
The searches in the capital detained four suspects for fraud, money laundering and corruption who, according to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, defrauded the EU of more than €340,000 in 2020.
A 28-year-old Portuguese national sought by British authorities for a murder committed in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, over three years ago, has been ‘localised and detained’, in the western region of The post Suspect in Irish homicide run to ground by PJ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The complaint was made by the victim to the school's psychologist.
A team sent by Portugal, including members of the Judicial Police and the Institute of Legal Medicine, is already working with Mozambican investigative authorities on the probe into the death of Portuguese national Pedro Ferraz, an official source said today.
A man suspected of abducting his three‑year‑old daughter was detained by Portugal’s Polícia Judiciária (PJ) in Matosinhos, near Porto. The case is under investigation.
Uncertainty over the death of Portuguese banker Pedro Ferraz Correia dos Reis, in Maputo, Mozambique, last week has led the government to send a team (including elements of PJ judicial The post PJ team travels to Mozambique to ‘accompany’ investigation into death of Portuguese banker appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Pedro Ferraz, aged 56, was found dead in a hotel in Maputo on Monday.
The team “will monitor the investigations into the death of businessman Pedro Ferraz Reis, in close cooperation with the judicial and police authorities”
Five of the 37 alleged members of neo‑Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the Polícia Judiciária (PJ), will await the progress of the investigation in pre-trial detention, the Central Criminal Investigation Court decided on Saturday. The remaining 32 defendants were released, 29 of whom are required to report weekly to the police station, and three only with a term of ...
Five of the 37 alleged members of neo-Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the Judicial Police (PJ), will await the progress of the investigation in pre-trial detention, the Central Criminal Investigation Court decided on Saturday.
First part of 'Doa a Quem Doer' on 23 January 2026.
The decision may be announced later today.
Some of the detainees recorded on the wiretaps were irritated by reports in the Correio da Manhã newspaper.
Authorities already have a suspect, believed to be an acquaintance of the victim, who suffered burns to her face.
The 37 people detained on suspicion of belonging to the neo-Nazi group 1143 have begun to be questioned. Among the defendants is a former Socialist Party activist.
The 32 men and five women are beginning to be questioned at the Lisbon Central Criminal Court.
They were detained by the PSP in two separate incidents. One is 23 years old and the other is 35.
The 37 people detained by the Judiciary Police as part of Operation Irmandade continued to be questioned on Thursday at the Lisbon Court of Criminal Investigation.
The Public Prosecutor's Office alleges that more than ten officers assaulted detainees at two Lisbon police stations and that images of alleged torture were shared among over 70 police officers. Two people have been formally identified as suspects in the alleged torture inquiry, and the prosecution's file describes ten particularly violent assaults. The allegations raise serious criminal and human-rights concerns and the investigation is ongoing.
