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“I will go to the end”. Woman who accuses PSP of aggression says she feared for life and promises to fight violence – Actualidade

The defendant then tells of the alleged assaults she suffered in a PSP car, where she claims to have been punched and the target of verbal abuse before being assisted at Fernando Fonseca hospital, in Amadora.

It was at the hospital, according to the Portuguese citizen born in Angola, that an agent sent her to sign some papers, which she did not read because she had “very swollen eyes”, which were the constitution of the defendant.

Cláudia Simões ends the letter saying that he is in shock with everything he has lived, that he has many problems and that he knows that “the struggle has just begun”.

“But I will go to the end and fight with all my forms, for the end of racism or any other focus of violence”, he assures.

The Public Security Police (PSP) opened a process of investigating the police action against a woman who was detained on Sunday in Amadora, an event that involved “assaults” and which resulted in a complaint against the service police.

Regarding the circumstances of the occurrence, the National Directorate of the PSP reported that the police accused of assaulting the detained woman “was approached by the public transport bus driver who requested assistance in the face of a citizen’s refusal to pay for the use of public transport. his daughter, and also because he threatened and injured him ”.

“This police officer, after learning about the driver’s version of events, addressed the citizen indicated by him”, clarified the PSP, referring that the police intervention took place at 8:30 pm on Sunday in Amadora.

Contrary to the complaint against the police, the PSP stated that the woman reacted “aggressively” to the police’s initiative to try to dialogue, “having repeatedly pushed the police with violence, which is why she was given a voice of detention” .

From the moment the woman was arrested, some other citizens who were inside public transport tried to prevent police action, namely “kicking and pushing the police”, said the PSP National Directorate in a statement, adding that the police found alone.

In order to stop the aggressions, the police “handcuffed them, using the force strictly necessary for the purpose in view of their resistance”.

“It should be noted that, in an attempt to free herself, she repeatedly bit the policeman, leaving him with the right hand and arm with marks from the bites he suffered and from which he received hospital treatment”, said the PSP.

The situation was only resolved with the arrival of a police reinforcement, to restrain people on the spot and promote the driving of the detained woman to the police station for the formalization of the arrest and notification for appearance in court.

According to the PSP, the detained woman asked to be taken to the Fernando da Fonseca Hospital, in Amadora, which happened at 22:00 on Sunday, as well as the police officer who was also assisted in the same hospital unit, being discharged and “until now, preventive suspension of functions has not been decreed,” a police source told Lusa.

As a direct consequence of the formalization of a complaint against the police officer who carried out the arrest, presented by the woman on Monday, “the PSP has already started the investigation of an investigation process in order to, alongside the criminal process, proceed with the formal investigation of the circumstances occurrence and all the facts alleged by the citizen ”.

However, on Wednesday the Minister of Internal Administration (MAI) ordered the opening of an inquiry into police action in the case of Cláudia Simões’s arrest, which resulted in a complaint against the police officer on duty.

Several parties have already asked the MAI for clarification on police action in this situation and on Monday the PSP had already announced the opening of an investigation process following the complaint made by the woman detained against the police officer on duty.

Within the scope of this occurrence, the organization SOS Racismo received “a report of police violence against black Portuguese citizens”, indicating that the woman was “in serious condition”, as a result of the aggressions she suffered at the bus stop and inside the PSP vehicle in towards the Casal de São Brás police station in Amadora.

According to the organization SOS Racismo, the detained woman “confirmed the whole chronology of the barbaric assault that she was the victim in front of her daughter under the age of 8”, also reporting that, while assaulting her, “the agent has not stopped giving racist insults” .

“The victim’s version belies everything in the content of the version of the communiqué issued by the PSP on this case of abuse of force and police violence,” reinforced SOS Racismo, warning that 76% of complaints against police officers for assaulting citizens in the Amadora municipality are archived.

For this organization, “it is inconceivable that the victim should be constituted accused and present ‘sine die’ to court while nothing happens to his aggressor”.

In this sense, SOS Racismo defended that the police involved in the aggressions should be “immediately suspended” from functions, aiming “that justice be done and that impunity for racist police violence be ended”.

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