JUSTICE
Repetition of the instruction of the process of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão starts in MarchFormer inspector of the Judiciary Police and 17 other defendants are accused of violent assaults on residences.
LUSA January 5, 2018, 5:35 p.m.The Cascais Criminal Investigation Court (TIC) scheduled for March the new investigative phase of the process in which Paulo Pereira Cristóvão,
https://www.publico.pt/2017/07/13/sociedade/noticia/tribunal-de-instrucao-de-cascais-decide-sobre-processo-de-paulo-pereira-cristovao-1779051 a former inspector of the Judiciary Police, and 17 other defendants are accused of violent assaults on residences.
In September last year, the Cascais ITC annulled the investigation phase and, consequently, the whole trial that began in June 2016, following the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice declaring the "material incompetence" of the Central Court of Criminal instruction for the completion of the investigation phase, after appeal by the defense of Pereira Cristóvão.
Accordingly, the Cascais ITC marked the repetition of the instruction - an optional phase to prove the prosecution of the Public Prosecutor or the closure of the case - at 9:30 am on March 2 -, on which day seven witnesses are to be examined and the hearing a defendant who has expressed a willingness to speak, explained this Friday to the agency Lusa judicial source. The training debate was scheduled for March 9.
Although the process belongs to the ICT of Cascais, this new phase of investigation, in which it will be decided whether or not the defendants go to trial, will be held in the Court of Sintra due to the high number of defendants.
In September of last year, the ICT of Cascais annulled the previous stage of instruction and, consequently, the trial. "I annul all the evidence produced in the investigation, as well as the instructional debate and the investigation decision, which, consequently, and in the face of a new production of evidence, must inevitably be repeated," said the order of the criminal investigation judge, Cristina Henriques Esteves , to which the agency Lusa had at the time access.
The judgment, also annulled, began in June 2016 at the Central Criminal Instance of Lisbon, but was suspended on 16 February last year by the panel of judges, pending the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, which would later declare "Material incompetence" of the Central Criminal Investigation Court for the conduct of the investigation phase.
The defense of the former Judicial Police inspector had brought an action to annul the act that declared the investigation phase open, claiming "material incompetence of the Central Criminal Investigation Court" (TCIC) to deal with the crimes in question. The defense stated that this stage should have been carried out by the Court of Criminal Instruction of Cascais.
The appeal reached the Supreme Court of Justice, which declared the TCIC incompetent to carry out the investigation phase and referred the case to the Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa (TRL). The TRL decided, in turn, to send the case back to Judge Carlos Alexandre, of the Central Court of Criminal Investigation, who referred them to the ICC in Cascais. This court annulled the whole process up to the investigation stage, including the trial, and ordered the repetition of the investigation phase.
The Cascais ICT also admitted the requests for the opening of instruction presented by five of the defendants.
The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo cheerleader Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, respond by criminal association, robbery, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by employee and document forgery.
According to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former inspector of the PJ and also a former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to assault by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and on the south bank of the Tagus River. The information was then transmitted to the other elements, which formed the operational side of the alleged criminal network.
https://www.publico.pt/2018/01/05/sociedade/noticia/repeticao-da-instrucao-do-processo-de-paulo-pereira-cristovao-arranca-em-marco-1798287
