“Whether the evidence could make the situation more difficult? I don’t understand. Fernando Saul had to come back here, because we understand that he should come back. Reasons? He just had to come and make a clarification, but I’m not going to talk about the process”, said Cristiana Carvalho, speaking to journalists outside the Criminal Investigation Court (TIC) in Porto.
The lawyer was speaking at the end of the additional interrogation of Fernando Saul, FC Porto’s supporter liaison officer, who had arrived at the scene at around 9.30 am, being transported in a PSP cell van from the Bela Vista police station, in Porto.
The club employee had already given statements to the investigating judge on Friday night and would return to court on Saturday afternoon, when transcripts from the cell phones of some of those detained in Operation Praetorian were added to the case file.
At the time, judge Pedro Miguel Vieira called the lawyers of all 12 defendants to the TIC, after analyzing the report on the information present in four cell phones seized in the searches, sending the evidence to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Saturday’s investigations ended with the release of Tiago Aguiar, another of the FC Porto employees involved in this process, António Moreira de Sá and Carlos Nunes, better known as ‘Jamaica’, bringing the number of detainees down to nine.
Work resumed at 10 am, with Fernando Saul hearing, followed, at around 2.30 pm, by Fernando Madureira, leader of the Super Dragões, who had already arrived at the TIC in the morning, coming from the Santo Tirso police station. , and makes a statement for the first time since his arrest.
Initially, Madureira had no intention of being heard by the criminal investigation judge, but he changed his strategy and is now available to speak, in a hearing that was scheduled to take place on Friday afternoon, but was postponed to today. .
Sandra Madureira, Fernando Madureira’s wife and vice-president of the Super Dragões cheerleader, and Vítor Catão, FC Porto fan and former president of São Pedro da Cova, remain silent. planned.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office will promote coercive measures at the end of the interrogations and the lawyers will present their positions, before the judge applies these measures to the 12 defendants in Operation Praetorian, also involving the three who were released.
“I assume that today [vão ser comunicadas as medidas de coação]but I think we will already have promotions”, acknowledged Cristiana Carvalho, Fernando Saul’s lawyer.
On Wednesday, the PSP detained 12 people – including two Dragons employees and the leader of the Super Dragões, Fernando Madureira -, as part of Operation Praetorian, which investigates the incidents that occurred at an extraordinary General Assembly (GA) of the club.
2024-02-05 15:59:00
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