Americo Reis, a Portuguese émigré in Switzerland who shot his wife and child in 2018, was sentenced to life in prison this Monday.
On Monday afternoon, a Swiss court sentenced a Portuguese émigré who shot his wife and 18-year-old eldest son to life in April 2018.
A panel of judges of the Northern Criminal Court of the Canton of Vaud (Lausanne) sentenced 53-year-old Americo Reis, the construction worker who shot him to death on April 25, 2018 in Peierne (near Lausanne). the woman he was separated from; and the eldest son, 18, who tried to protect his mother.
At the trial, the killer’s defenders tried to prove that he was a “victim” since childhood of great violence, which, they claimed, continued throughout the marriage, presenting himself in court as a “victim” of his wife and eldest son, a young man. “very impulsive”.
The panel of judges did not retain any of these alleged mitigations, given that the Portuguese, who were born in Travanka (Santa Maria da Feira) and emigrated to Switzerland since 2006, “coolly” planned the crime and devastated “without any hesitation” two porters about a woman and a child.
