The PSP is carrying out searches this morning in the Porto region, targeting members of the Super Dragões fan base. O leader Fernando Madureira It is 11 other people ended up being detained, including the woman. Ricardo Vara Cavaleiro, criminal law lawyer, explains what is known about the crimes that may be at stake and the legal proceedings, at a stage that is still “very embryonic in the process”.
The operation is still ongoing, but there are suspicions that crimes of bodily harm or offense and threat may be involved.
Ricardo Vara Cavaleiro explains that “These are crimes that are punishable with prison sentences and then the sum, in essence, of the various legal acts, will result in a compound, a higher penalty”.
“We don’t know for sure, there will certainly also be a crime of coercion that may be involved, but it is a very embryonic phase of the process. Certainly given this type of offense, any of these searches that were carried out must certainly have been ordered by order of the criminal investigating judge, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is conducting the investigation.”explains the lawyer.
Following these arrests, Ricardo Vara Cavaleiro gives an account of what can be expected to happen now.
“Someone is only detained, someone’s freedom is only restricted, if it is understood that it is strictly necessary to obtain some means of proof and, in this case, the news has been conveyed that Mr. Fernando Madureira, leader of the Super Dragões cheerleader, will have was notified to appear at DIAP, therefore, with the bodies that are investigating and that he did not appear. And that could be the cause.”
On the other hand, the lawyer states that “The searches being carried out aim to seize elements that are related to the crime. Objects, facts, possibly even correspondence related to these facts with the General Assembly”.
“The investigation must suspect that there may have been something, such as some concertation or as some criminal association on the part of some individuals in order to limit, constrain, coerce, protect the freedom of some of the members who could intervene in a way that was unfavorable to what was the fan’s intention”.
In this regard, the lawyer admits that “correspondence, emails or even WhatsApp messages may also be seized”.
These are means of obtaining evidence that aim to apprehend, collect evidence that can then support these indications that fall on each of the targeted suspects.
