Ex-PJ detective Paulo Pereira Cristóvão guilty and sentenced to 4½ years.

[John]

Quite frankly, the other alleged crimes of Paulo Pereira Cristovão which include kidnap and aggravated robbery are dreadful and have caused so much damage to the Portuguese police. According to PJ detectives, these crimes took place in the Greater Lisbon Area and Setúbal to the south, with the assailants often resorting to violence in order to establish where their victims had hidden cash or items of considerable value.

Let's hope he serves time in a real prison if found guilty.

[ShiningInLuz]

its been confirmed by SIL

No, it hasn't.

[Mr Gray]

No, it hasn't.

you said police get special treatment by the courts

[Mr Gray]

Former PJ police colleagues Paulo Pereira Cristovão (pictured left) and Gonçalo Amaral, who also authored a book on Madeleine's disappearance (right) pictured outside the Faro Court in 2008.

So Paulo Pereira Cristóvão doesn't have to serve another day in a prison cell, is that the crux of it?

I notice he has been on house arrest after being released from Évora prison fitted with an electronic tag bracelet.

Cristovão also worked on the case involving the disappearance of Joana Cipriano, who was eight when she went missing in 2004 from her mother’s home in Figueira, located between Portimão and Lagos in the Algarve.
He was later accused of being present as his colleagues allegedly extracted a confession from Joana’s mother by resorting to physical violence. Leonor Cipriano signed a confession, but retracted it a day later alleging she had been beaten by police officers. According to police, the bruising on her face was due to her having fallen down a flight of stairs at the police station during the interrogation.
Cristovão was later cleared by a Faro court of any wrong-doing, but resigned from PJ police shortly afterwards.
He also published a book on the disappearance of Joana, of whom there is still no trace.

dare i ask what is the source for this...particularly the last paragraph

[Alice Purjorick]

dare i ask what is the source for this...particularly the last paragraph

Metodo3 ?

[ShiningInLuz]

you said police get special treatment by the courts

I said, more than once, the following.

Defamation of police officers, assuming it is proved, incur damages 50% above normal.  This applies to a wide range of 'professions' or 'institutions', not just the police.

The laws in determining whether defamation has occurred are no different for anyone in Portugal.

[Mr Gray]

I said, more than once, the following.

Defamation of police officers, assuming it is proved, incur damages 50% above normal.  This applies to a wide range of 'professions' or 'institutions', not just the police.

The laws in determining whether defamation has occurred are no different for anyone in Portugal.

so the police get special treatment from the courts

there have been several reports of torture re portugal on the amnesty site...the police do it because they know they can get away with it

[slartibartfast]

so the police get special treatment from the courts

You mean like...

Where the offence is not so serious as to warrant a whole life order but the seriousness of the offence is particularly high the appropriate starting point is 30 years. The following examples are given:

a) the murder of a police or prison officer in the course of his duty;

[Mr Gray]

You mean like...

#no I dont mean like....  I mean this like...

there have been several reports of torture re portugal on the amnesty site...the police do it because they know they can get away with it

[slartibartfast]

#no I dont mean like

Seems like special treatment.

[ShiningInLuz]

#no I dont mean like....  I mean this like...

there have been several reports of torture re portugal on the amnesty site...the police do it because they know they can get away with it

Try saying that in Portugal, and feel free to cough up the extra 50%.

[Mr Gray]

Try saying that in Portugal, and feel free to cough up the extra 50%.

seems ammaral...the police...can say what he wants

[ferryman]

#no I dont mean like....  I mean this like...

there have been several reports of torture re portugal on the amnesty site...the police do it because they know they can get away with it

In fairness Almeida didn't (quite)  He got a suspended sentence (for bastinado) and continued working as a police officer.

[Carana]

"Cristovão was later cleared by a Faro court of any wrong-doing, but resigned from PJ police shortly afterwards."

Not quite the full story. He got a 120-day suspension by the PJ watchdog, then got booted.


tvi24.iol.pt/sociedade/paulo-pereira-cristovao/ministra-nega-recurso-a-pereira-cristovao-de-pena-aplicada-pela-pj

[Jean-Pierre]

Try saying that in Portugal, and feel free to cough up the extra 50%.

What a ghastly relic of the Salazar years.  Hardly a great advert for Portugal, is it.