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The Portuguese Council for Refugees has pledged to provide legal assistance to Omar Al-Hayali, an Iraqi national who was recently assaulted in Lisbon's Alameda Afonso Henriques.
Forensic analysis failed to find DNA or fingerprints on the knife allegedly used by Odair Moniz, with a PJ inspector testifying that surveillance footage does not show him holding the weapon.
Behaviors still demonstrate a dangerous lack of supervision.
A lawyer argues that the firing of rubber bullets and baton strikes to the head indicate crimes of physical assault and abuse of power. One of the victims suffered hearing loss.
Three hierarchical superiors of the two accused agents, who had led street operations that ended in violence and torture inside the station, are among the two dozen witnesses. However, they claim to have seen nothing abnormal. The incriminating testimony of a single agent was fundamental to the investigation.
Fingerprints of four police officers have emerged, presented as an oversight by the PSP.
It is not the most brutal that is recognised. It is simply the most resilient, compassionate, and possessor of a cultured and humanistic firmness.
The author of Football Leaks has been in legal battles since 2019 for the same crimes. Judges state he was the target of persecution by the judicial system.
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The Lisbon City Council is hosting a colloquium to address how local security strategies must evolve to tackle social tensions, housing pressures, and migration, moving beyond traditional policing toward a model of community-based 'co-production' and social cohesion.
Rui Pinto was facing charges for over 200 crimes, including qualified illegitimate access, aggravated violation of correspondence, and computer damage crimes.
Footage shows assaults involving pepper spray and boxing gloves. The judge ruled that the fact that the victims were drug addicts or homeless “does not undermine their credibility”.
There is also a fifth person who remains unidentified, as the fingerprints discovered do not match any records in the national criminal database.
Carlos Cabreiro explains that the structures involved are organised “in a way to disseminate the profits that come from criminal activity”.
Seven officers have been in pre-trial detention since the beginning of March.
Bruno Pereira, president of the Police Officers' Union, examines the torture case at the Rato police station in Lisbon.
Fernando Braamcamp was president of the Areeiro Parish Council until February 2025, when he requested a suspension of his mandate after being accused of nearly 40 crimes in the Tutti Frutti case.
The shocking accounts of alleged torture and rape committed by two young PSP agents at Lisbon’s Rato police station have seen both been sent by trial by the Central Criminal The post Court orders trial of two PSP agents accused of rape and torture appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The main defendant, aged 22, faces 29 charges, including six counts of torture and five of rape.
The Central Criminal Investigation Court today ordered the trial of two PSP officers accused in January by the Public Prosecutor's Office of torture and rape crimes against detainees at the Rato police station in Lisbon.
The Central Criminal Investigation Court has ordered two PSP officers to stand trial for crimes of torture and rape against detainees at the Rato station in Lisbon. The judge found sufficient evidence to proceed, noting a high probability of conviction. The primary defendant faces 29 charges, including torture and rape, while the second faces seven charges, including abuse of power. The investigation revealed that the officers targeted vulnerable individuals, such as drug users, homeless people, and foreign nationals, often filming the abuse and sharing it in WhatsApp groups. This case is separate from a second investigation that led to the arrest of seven additional officers in March.
The indictment is clear in its description of several crimes, many of which were filmed and photographed without any authorisation.
The Central Criminal Investigation Court has ordered the trial of the two PSP officers accused in January by the Public Prosecutor's Office of crimes of torture and rape against detainees at the Rato police station in Lisbon.
Two of the nine suspects have been sent to trial. The remaining seven are still under investigation.
The two officers have been in pre-trial detention since March, when they were arrested following an investigation into crimes of severe torture, rape, assault, and abuse of power at the Rato police station.
The pre-trial decision in the case of alleged crimes of torture, rape, abuse of power, and physical assault, among others, by seven PSP officers at the Rato police station (Lisbon) is delivered today at the Central Criminal Investigation Court.
The ‘I Want Justice’ segment gave a voice to the family of a young man assaulted by the PSP, who alleges a case of mistaken identity regarding a bicycle theft suspect. The family explains what happened.
The PSP identified participants in several disturbances and arrested one man.
João Oliveira, director of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley PJ, argues that the word “no” must be reclaimed. “The idea that a woman's 'no' corresponds, at the very least, to a half-hearted 'yes' does not exist.”
All defendants in the Saco Azul case, including former Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira, were acquitted this Thursday, with the court citing doubts regarding the prosecution's case. The court noted that only a forensic technical expert report could determine who did what, who accessed the system, and what IT issues were created.
