THE complaint reaches social networks through SOS Racism. In a publication made this Monday they inform that they received a “complaint of police violence “against a” black Portuguese citizen“, who was allegedly assaulted in front of” the youngest daughter “, and who” was in a serious condition, result “, reads in the publication, of the alleged aggressions suffered by agents of the PSP “and, allegedly, also within the Casal de São Brás police station“.
THE PSP issued this Monday evening a statement confirming the “complaint made by a citizen against a policeman, as a result of a police intervention in Amadora, at 8:30 pm on the 19th of January“.
Highlights the SOS Racism in its publication, which accompanies a video of the moment, that “this aggression happens in the municipality of Amadora, where 76% of complaints against police officers for assaulting citizens are filed”.
“For this very reason, this is yet another case that we will follow up and take to the last consequences. PS: the citizen’s photos circulating on the net that illustrate the violence that she was subjected to “. These images show a woman with a bloody nose and lips, and are accompanied by alleged reports of the situation.
However, it understands the PSP that it is important to note that a police officer “was approached by the driver” of a bus who asked him for help before “a citizen’s refusal to pay for the use of her daughter’s transport, and also because she threatened and injured him“.
THE citizen “proved aggressive” before the approach of the PSP, “having repeatedly pushed the police forcefully, which is why he was given a voice of detention”. “The policeman, who was alone, to stop the aggressions of the detained citizen, proceeded to handcuff of it, using the force strictly necessary for the effect in view of its resistance“, having the citizen, according to the PSP, bitten “repeatedly by the police”.
“The detained citizen was at 10 pm, and for having asked for it, she was taken to the Fernando da Fonseca Hospital, having been discharged at 2 am on the 20th of January“, as well as the police, who was assisted in the same hospital unit.
This Monday, the citizen “appeared at a police station” to file a complaint against the police who arrested her and the PSP “has already started the investigation of an investigation process to, alongside the criminal process, proceed with the formal investigation of circumstanceThences of the occurrence and all the facts“.
The citizen will be heard in court tomorrow following the arrest.
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