Pre-trial detention for suspect of assaulting a 90-year-old woman

The man who violently assaulted a nonagenarian, causing her several injuries, in the center of the city of Braga, having been detained by the PSP a few minutes later, was this Monday in preventive detention, decided the judge of criminal investigation of Guimarães.

The coercion measure took into account the fact that the theft caused bruises in the elderly woman, transported to the Emergency Department of Hospital de Braga, where she had already received treatment. The assailant is referred by the PSP / Braga on suspicion of the practice of several crimes.

The PSP Braga District Command acted immediately upon receiving a phone call around noon this Sunday, reporting that theft had been committed, using physical force, at Rua D. Afonso Henriques, in the city of Braga, near the Cathedral.

Immediately, elements of the PSP in Braga moved to the place, and the injured woman, an elderly woman, 92 years old, informed the police that an unknown person, using physical force, had stolen her wallet, with money and several documents .

The PSP agents, already in possession of the suspect’s characteristics, a 54-year-old citizen, went to the vicinity where the theft had occurred, having been arrested at Rua Dom Paio Mendes. The man was still in possession of the victim’s money and documents. He also had a few doses of cocaine with him.

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