Father shocked by surfer’s arrest in Bali. Young man from Cascais risks death penalty for drug trafficking – World

Fernando Sousa lives in Cascais. He is 39 years old and was arrested in Bali, in the same police operation that led to the arrest of Rui Viana, the 21-year-old young footballer from Madeira, caught in Jakarta with two kilos of cocaine.Fernando Sousa is a surfer and it wouldn’t be the first time he visited the island. It is not known what led him to risk his luck. Trying to transport drugs to a country whose trafficking is punishable by the death penalty.
On the ground floor of the house he shares with his father – and which is at the same time the headquarters of his IT company – silence now reigns. The family member is in shock and cannot find explanations for what happened. “I don’t want to talk,” he told the reporter. CMwithout hiding the sadness for what he is going through.For now, contacts are maintained with the Portuguese and Indonesian authorities, but the possibility of extradition appears to be ruled out. Rui and Fernando will have to serve their sentence in a Jakarta prison, a sentence that could reach 20 years in prison, without the possibility of parole.

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