Judicial police, through the Northern Directorate, identified and detained on the night of Monday, May 9, “a person for committing a qualified murder,” the police said in a statement.
It is further explained that this case took place in the early hours of Sunday, May 8, in the city of Porto, “in retaliation for the series of aggressions that have taken place since January of this year between the accused, his family and the victim”.
This was reported by a source in the judicial police. SAPO24 that this arrest is related to the events that took place near the Estádio do Dragão during the celebration of the victory of FC Porto in the Portuguese Football Championship.
Early Sunday morning, a 26-year-old man was stabbed to death as PSP Porto identified suspects in the attacks that killed him near the Dragão Stadium, where tens of thousands of supporters had gathered.
The woman who accompanied the victim and allegedly tried to resolve the differences also received minor injuries.
According to the joint venture, “at that time a group of persons, including the defendant, pursued the victim, punching and kicking her.”
“Given the intervention of some persons who were also attacked, the victim managed to escape from the scene, taken by surprise by the defendant, who, armed with a white weapon of considerable size, struck her repeatedly and with special force, causing him to death”, he is still can be read. Then “the whole group of aggressors dispersed, and the defendant was thrown to flight.”
The judiciary also emphasizes that “the 19-year-old detainee, a cleaner with no criminal record, will be present at the first judicial interrogation for the use of coercive measures deemed appropriate.”
Death occurred “for personal reasons”
The death was due to “personal differences” between the victim and the aggressor, a police source told Lusa today. This source connected with the investigation explained that “there was a personal matter, disagreements between the victim, the family of the defendant and the defendant himself”, who was arrested on Monday evening by the judicial police.
The same source clarified that the episode of violence “was not a dispute over territories, wars between armed ‘gangs’ and had nothing to do with football”, adding that no firearms were used during the aggression, only a knife. The defendant fatally stabbed the 26-year-old victim.
(Article updated at 10:56)
