Former inspector of PJ Pereira Cristóvão and Mustafá hear judgment in CascaisFormer PJ inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, Leonina Youth cheerleader Mustafá, knows the ruling this Friday at the Cascais Court. At issue are home theft.
06 dec 2019,
Former Judiciary Police (PJ) inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, Leonina Youth cheerleader, Nuno Mendes (Mustafá), and 15 other defendants know this Friday's ruling in the Cascais Court of the process of violent home assaults .
The president of the panel of judges, Ema Vasconcelos, set the reading of the ruling at 2 pm, after the final allegations of the defense of the 17 defendants accused by the Public Prosecutor (MP) of belonging to an alleged criminal network of violent home assaults have ended. in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
The 17 defendants, including three police officers, are responsible for criminal association, theft, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by an official, and document forgery.
On October 18, MP Prosecutor Paula Ferraz defended, in her allegations, the conviction of all defendants except Celso Augusto, appointed by Pereira Cristóvão as being the person who gave information about the victims and the homes to be robbed.
In the face of the defendants' confessions, the testimony of the victims and witnesses, and all the evidence produced in the trial, which began in February this year, the MP gave evidence of the facts and the involvement of the defendants in the robberies of a Cascais residence in February 27, 2014, and another one on Avenida do Brasil, in Lisbon, in April of that year.
The prosecutor considered that, in these two assaults, the crime of joining the criminal association was proven, because “there was a hierarchy that was respected and that always worked the same way”: Pereira Cristóvão outlined the plan and gave instructions on targets to Mustafa, who passed them to brother Paulo Santos (known as Bábá).
The latter, in turn, transmitted the information to the defendants who carried out the robberies, namely to two defendant policemen, responsible for forging search warrants and simulating fictitious searches to enter the victims' homes.
After the removal of Mustafá, Paulo Santos and Pereira Cristóvão, the remaining defendants continued to carry out robberies, especially on the south bank of the Tagus River.
In these assaults, the Public Prosecution Service assumed no criminal association, as there was no hierarchy, but rather a co-authorship, because "they acted jointly and in concert". He also called for the conviction of the defendants involved in the other crimes they are accused of.
On October 25, Mustafá's defense asked the court for an opportunity to redeem himself through a suspended sentence, while Paulo Pereira Cristóvão's lawyer also admitted the condemnation of his client in the “exact and fair measure of the acts performed”, that is. It is because it has helped, even without knowing it, the practice of violent assaults.
The remaining lawyers asked the panel of judges to take into account the attitude and collaboration of their clients demonstrated at trial.
https://observador.pt/2019/12/06/antigo-inspetor-da-pj-pereira-cristovao-e-mustafa-conhecem-acordao-em-cascais/
