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Lack of minimum services frees suspects of trafficking, homicide and domestic violence

Lack of minimum services frees suspects of trafficking, homicide and domestic violence
Lack of minimum services frees suspects of trafficking, homicide and domestic violence
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At least 12 detainees were released yesterday in the Greater Lisbon area due to the bailiffs’ strike. These include suspects of homicide, domestic violence and drug trafficking.according to the judicial employees union (SFJ).

The same source tells Lusa that there is a murder suspect who was released because he could not be brought before the investigating judge for the first judicial interrogation within 48 hours. The DN already knows that the same happened in relation to eight drug trafficking suspects who were released, four of them caught with ‘acorns’ of drugs, and who were supposedly ‘drug couriers’, coming from Brazil.

What is certain is that four of the drug trafficking suspects, who were caught upon arrival at Humberto Delgado airport, in Lisbon, between Saturday, 20th, and Sunday, April 21st, were intercepted by the Judiciary Police. These alleged drug ‘couriers’ transported the narcotic product – cocaine – in their own bodies or hidden in their luggage.

Those who had ingested the drug ‘acorns’ were taken to hospital, until the narcotic product was expelled. After, They were arrested and taken, on Wednesday, for their first judicial interrogation, at the Justice Campus, in Lisbon. However, without employees to be able to accompany the judges in this process, the suspects ended up being releaseds, because 48 hours have passed to be presented to a judge. The DN tried to obtain a position from the Judiciary Police regarding what happened, without success.

There is also another detainee – whose alleged crime was not identified – who had to be released in Cascais and others five detained on suspicion of domestic violence who were also released for the same reason: two in Lisbon, two in Sintra and one in Seixal.

Questioned by DN, António Marçal, president of the Union of Justice Officers, passes the blame to the ministry. “Why did the Ministry of Justice, in due time, not raise the designation of minimum services for this strike?” And he adds: “This advance notice of strike was presented in December 2023. The Ministry of Justice has the legal means to trigger the establishment of minimum services”.

The ministry presents a different version to the DN. “The union that called the strike for this Wednesday and Friday mornings did not indicate the minimum services, as is the law. The public employer (DGAJ – General Directorate of Justice Administration), within 24 hours, summoned the Arbitration College so that it could decide the minimum services. The Arbitration College decided not to set minimum services for these two mornings”, explains a source from the ministry who adds: “Unsatisfied, the DGAJ appealed to the Lisbon Court of Appeal. The appeal was filed on December 29, 2023. To date, there has been no decision from the court.”

The article is in Portuguese

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