Accused of attacking car with FC Porto fans remains in custody | OneFootball

The Lisbon Court of Appeal decided to keep a 22-year-old young man in preventive detention, accused of attacking a car with FC Porto fans after a classic roller hockey match. However, one of the three judges had argued that the defendant should await the continuation of the process under house arrest with electronic monitoring.

In the ruling, cited by Jornal de Notícias, judges Maria do Carmo Lourenço and Ana Paula Guedes rejected the appeal filed by Leandro Pinto's defense, as they believe that the risks of continued criminal activity and serious disruption of public order and tranquility persist. “These dangers are real given the personality demonstrated by the appellant (and co-defendants) and the circumstances surrounding the commission of the acts. (…) It is necessary to conclude that the preventive detention measure should be maintained, as there are no circumstances, either in fact or in law, that justify the revocation or alteration of the coercive measure,” they justified.

It should be remembered that the Public Prosecutor's Office charged seven Sporting fans with attempted qualified homicide against five FC Porto supporters, related to incidents that occurred on June 10 of last year, after a classic roller hockey match played in Lisbon.

In addition to attempted qualified homicide, the defendants will have to answer for ten crimes of qualified physical assault, one crime of arson, five crimes of robbery – one of them consummated and qualified and four in attempted form – and three crimes of qualified damage.

The accusation claims that they acted in a group with the intention of setting fire to the vehicles in which the rivals were traveling, preventing them from leaving, delivering blows and baton strikes, stoning the victims and the cars, and seizing valuable objects they were carrying.

The victims were attacked when the vehicle stopped at a traffic light in Lumiar, Lisbon. During the assault, a car with five occupants ended up being set on fire.

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