Court backs Varandas! Baía and Cerqueira to pay Sporting chief | OneFootball

Frederico Varandas was vindicated by the courts in the case related to the incidents that took place in the parking garage of the Estádio do Dragão, after a Porto-Sporting derby played in 2022. Vítor Baía and Rui Cerqueira were convicted by the Porto District Court.

The former Porto director was sentenced to pay a fine of 1,200 euros for the crime of insult. According to the newspaper A Bola, the court found that Vítor Baía admitted the facts, although without showing remorse.

Rui Cerqueira, Porto’s communications director, was sentenced to a fine of 1,200 euros for a specific offense of bodily harm at a sporting event. The court concluded that the official slapped Frederico Varandas’s hand, causing the Sporting president’s mobile phone and earphones to fall.

In addition to the fine, however, the ruling will be suspended until the appeal to the Porto Court of Appeal has been decided.

The two defendants were also ordered to pay compensation to Frederico Varandas for the damage caused.

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