Far-right denialist judge readmitted by the Order after being expelled from the bench

The controversial judge Rui da Fonseca e Castro returned to work, even after having problems with the law. The member of Stand Up! and the You have a body will have been judged by a friend for defamation and insult.

The list is long for Rui da Fonseca e Castro, the most recent party candidate Get Up! for this year’s European electionswho stated that he only ran to “dismantle” the European Union.

Vandalism, disturbance of events public events that he carried out with his followers, false statements, defamation, usurpation of functions and offense against the honor of the President of the Republic.

For any judge expelled from the bench, it would be the end of his legal career, but not for Fonseca e Castro, who has now returned to practice, upon being accepted by the Bar Association.

The President of the Order, Fernanda Almeida Pinheirosays there are no legal reasons that could prevent this re-entry. Still, lawyers are divided:

“What shocks us, in the Lisbon regional council, is law being the dustbin of other legal professions. Which is an attack on the dignity of the legal profession”, says the lawyer João Massanowho classified the former judge’s re-entry as “inadmissible”.

“The applicant is only asked to sign a declaration, under oath, attesting that is not performing duties incompatible with law. There is nothing registered in your Bar Association registry that raises doubts for the services”, says Público Fernanda Almeida Pinheiro.

According to the president, this process is enough for the magistrate to be able to return to his duties.

When publishing posts ultranationalist and ultraconservative on social mediaRui da Fonseca e Castro, who was also general secretary of the ADN party, gathered several followers, who joined the politician to cause disturbances in public order, which has already caused him problems with the law.

🇵🇹 | In Porto, Rui da Fonseca e Castro, together with elements from Habeas Corpus, “closed” AIMA for an indefinite period.

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In one of the criminal cases he faced, he was accused of offend Marcelo Rebelo de Sousawho involved in the Casa Pia process, and the, at the time, national director of the PSP, Magina da Silva, who he accused of being “an idiot, a puppet” and a member of Freemasonry.

The latest problem with Fonseca e Castro’s justice now involves commentator Maria João Marques, a situation that earned her a second accusation of the Public Ministry, for slanderous accusation.

According to , the judge, member of the He was tried this year by a judge who was his frienda fact that she herself admitted (the two would have “lived together in moments of leisure, visiting and frequenting their respective homes, sharing moments with their respective families and friends“), but which would have been devalued by the judges.