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Two former police officers have been forced into hiding after an AI chatbot erroneously linked them to the death of a man who died while in custody, resulting in severe death threats.
The family of Ana Paula, a Santa Casa employee who died at 49, demands a public apology from Carris, the municipal company overseen by the executive led by Carlos Moedas.
The Santa Casa employee, who led an adoption centre, would have turned 50 this week. The lawsuit, also filed against the maintenance company and the insurer Fidelidade, was submitted to the court on Monday.
The PS will appoint a lawyer to represent the party in the case. Furthermore, the French children who were abandoned in Alcácer do Sal by their mother and stepfather are already in France.
A detailed account of the events from the moment of arrival in Portugal until the French children were abandoned in Alcácer do Sal.
The criminal investigation into the death of an elderly man in Bragança during the INEM strike has been archived, as there is no evidence that the death was caused by delays in emergency assistance.
Miguel Reis guarantees that the ship was initially sold to a company in Malta at the request of a potential buyer.
British police want to bring Christian Brueckner from Germany to the United Kingdom to stand trial for the abduction and murder of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal nearly 20 years ago.
Now everything is his, but Judite disagrees, so the butler has been named a formal suspect and the paintings are under the custody of the courts.
A representative for some members of the women's collective states that this does not mean “that there is no evidence.”
Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Francismara Machado had been living in Maia for about three years and selling homemade cakes. She lost her final appeal to avoid imprisonment in Brazil and has gone on a hunger strike.
Lawyers for the Portuguese-Angolan businessman Carlos São Vicente have filed a petition requesting his urgent release, citing medical, humanitarian, and legal grounds, after a surgery in March failed to resolve the health issue that prompted the intervention.
The case had been brought by Marco Azevedo, former Director of the Music Department at the company 'Twenty One Talent Management'.
The freight elevator door would open even when the platform was on the floor below. The failure was identified two years before the accident.
The mayor says it is “natural” to have invoices registered for several lunches on the same day. The investigation counted 160 “working meals” on weekends.
Lawyer Ana Rita Duarte Campos analyses the case that led to the arrest of the secretary-general of the Lisbon City Council. Luís Rosa and Saragoça da Matta debate the deadlock at the Constitutional Court.
If a replacement is carried out, it “will signify the definitive destruction of the final traces of evidence regarding the actual state of the ship” in March 2023, according to the motion filed by the military personnel accused of insubordination.
There was a name and everything, but the person did not actually exist.
A staff member of the Braga Sapador Firefighters claims that Nuno Osório installed a camera pointed at her workstation and isolated her with a glass partition next to her desk.
The defendant slapped a 4-year-old child in front of other children and a mother.
Daniel Soares denies the police version of events and alleges that the officers' behaviour changed as soon as they became aware of his homosexuality.
Daniel Soares denies the police version of events and alleges that the officers' behaviour changed as soon as they became aware of his homosexuality.
The director of the newspaper Página Um was acquitted today of the crime of defamation regarding texts related to Henrique Gouveia e Melo, as well as charges of slander, false advertising, and offending an organization concerning the Portuguese Medical Association.
The former minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being corrupted by former banker Ricardo Salgado.
The accusation states that the mistreatment occurred between 2023 and 2024 and that the three elderly women were slapped. The accused remained silent in court.
The cases date back to 2018 and 2019. The soldiers were convicted for assaulting Southeast Asian immigrants and filming the incidents. One of their lawyers will request a habeas corpus.
The case involves 35 defendants, including individuals and companies, accused of crimes such as human trafficking, criminal association, and aiding illegal immigration.
José, 35, had already confessed the crime to the authorities.
The ringleaders were given 10 years' imprisonment each.
Raquel Machado Faísca says the link to Mário Machado exists because he 'is the father of her youngest daughter.' The defendant claims that the Portuguese justice system has been 'unfair' to her former partner.
