A PSP agent went this morning kidnapped by a couple in the Algés area, forced to withdraw money and forced to enter his own house. The case, rare in Portugal, ended with the death of one of the kidnappers, shot by the police himself with his service weapon.
The body was removed from the PSP agent’s house mid-morning on Monday, after the Judiciary Police were at the scene to collect evidence. The PSP agent says that killed in self-defense.
Officer was approached in the early hours of the morning
According to the police, it all started at 3:30 in the morning. at some traffic lights in Algésmunicipality of Oeiras.
O civilian police and in a civilian car He was allegedly approached by a pair of robbers, a man and a woman, who forced him into a second car at gunpoint.
Says it was coerced into going to an ATM raise money and then You are also forced to go to your own home.
What happened inside the house?
Little is known about what happened inside the police officer’s residence in Benfica. The agent says that managed to gain access to the service weapon and, in self-defense, fired once, hitting one of the kidnappers in the chest. A shot that turned out to be deadly.
The woman managed to escape, but has already been detained by the PSP.
The man killed by the PSP agent was 40 years old.
The case has been handed over to the Judicial Police who, during the investigation, will try to understand whether the kidnapping of the police officer was purely occasional or if there was any previous relationship with the kidnappers that may have led to a reckoning.
