Portuguese man who planned massacres in Brazil showed “total indifference and contempt” during interrogation

The court says that the Portuguese arrested for planning attacks on schools in Brazil has shown indifference and contempt and has criminal energy. The lawyer says that the 17-year-old was not expecting to be in pre-trial detention. Warning: Description may be disturbing.

Given the evidence that the Public Prosecutor’s Office sent to the criminal investigation court, the judge appears to have expressed no doubts
to the extent of coercion to be decreed.

In the order to which SIC had access, the judge was relentless. She says that the young man she interrogated showed total indifference and contempt for the crimes he committed, that he revealed criminal energy and that what he did reveals that he has deep-rooted extremist and radical ideas. And that it generates a “strong social alarm”.

He explains that the danger of continuing to commit the same crimes was obvious, that the influence he had on dozens of young people in the group on the Discrod platform was a danger of disrupting the investigation, especially through the destruction of evidence.

He is placed in pre-trial detention and the judge assumes that it is very likely that he will be convicted. As he is a minor, he goes to the Leiria prison to wait in prison. It was an outcome that the young man would not be counting on.

The home searches were carried out at the parents’ homes, between Santa Maria da Feira and Gondomar. It was at his parents’ house, using a computer with material that prevented location, that the young man led the group.

He convinced young people to carry out massacres in schools in Brazil. He convinced them to record everything on their cell phone and then share it. He encouraged young people to mutilate themselves and to mutilate and kill animals. Shared and sold child pornography.

When inspectors carried out house searches they realized that they may have prevented other attacks. One of them was about to happen in Brazil.

The Judiciary Police assumes that they seized a lot of digital material in the young man’s home. For now, he is the only Portuguese, but he will continue to investigate. And he believes that through what he seized he will be able to open more cases and prevent other crimes.