The case surrounding the accusation of domestic violence against José Castelo Branco, which Betty Grafstein reported to health professionals at the CUF Cascais Hospital where she remains hospitalized, continues to make headlines in the press and on television programs.
On the same day that the hospital’s health professionals are being interrogated by the GNR of Alcabideche and that José Castelo Branco could be arrested due to accusations of domestic violence and also the attempted murder of him, the case was again covered on CMTV.
On the afternoon of this Monday, May 6th, Manuel Rodrigues, commentator on the Medialivre channel, analyzed the latest events that have been made public and did not spare any criticism of José Castelo Branco: “I think this case is, in some ways, a slap in the face to all of us. We spent years feeding a strange figure called José Castelo Branco and making him an idol of the nation, a socialiteI don’t know what, a very important person“.
Bluntly, the commentator highlighted: “Good God! What did this man bring to Portuguese society worth mentioning? Nothing, absolutely nothing! And we, the press, the citizens, find all this very amusing and we think that this is a figure who deserves to appear on television and in the newspapers and be the subject of news and then we end up neglecting all these films and these things that this man does with a 95 year old woman“.
Manuel Rodrigues further lamented: “I think this is not the time for us to now pull out all the sand and shove it on top of José Castelo Branco. What I regret is that, at this moment, we are really beginning to realize that there may be a situation that has been going on for years of physical and psychological violence, a lot of people apparently knew, no one did anything about it and now everyone is very angry. because apparently José Castelo Branco exercised violence against the lady“.
“And this is what is regrettable! We realize that someone picks up the woman to take her to the hospital in an emergency and films her in the car as if this were something normal. All of this is terribly base, but only now does it seem like people are looking at this and thinking that, after all, this character is not as illustrious as she seems and, perhaps, there was much more beneath all of this that deserved to have another attention a long time ago“, he concluded.
