Actor Carloto Cotta went through the soap operas of SIC and TVI. It was accused of 9 crimes by the prosecutor.
Terror in Sintra: Actor Carloto Cotta arrested a woman in her home for more than 24 hours, where she violated her, assaulted, and stole to pay drug debt, according to the prosecution. It will also have forced it to quote and hear poetry and wash the dishes.
The actor Carloto Cotta was accused of nine crimes by the Public Prosecution Service (MP), among which violation, kidnapping, physical aggression, threats and injuries to the physical integrity of a woman, which guarantees to have been “Kidnapped and violated” for more than 24 hours At the actor’s house, protagonist of the TVI soap operas “Island of Amores” and “Prisoner”.
According to the news advanced by, the MP accuses the 41 -year -old actor for facts in May 2023 at his own residence in Necklaces, Sintra. The victim, identified as “Maria”, in her 40s, reports terrifying details about the succeed.
How it all happened, according to the victim
It all will have started when the two met in a Cascaishopping bookstore. Initially, the relationship seemed friendly, but everything changed on May 3, 2023, when Cotta invited “Maria” to go to his home.
In the middle of a conversation the actor “It showed a condom XL” and “displayed the genitals” To the victim, reports the weekly. The victim will have fled and said she wanted to leave, but she will still have agreed to drink a gin.
Two hours later, I wanted to leave, but the door was locked and the key in Cotta’s possession. The actor said, according to the accusation, that the woman “I couldn’t leave, that it had a sexual tension and that she had to serve him anyway”.
“With the use of physical strength, she grabbed her by an arm, lay her on a sofa in the room and placed her body over hers, with which she immobilized” and masturbated on the victim forcing her to practice oral sexsays the MP.
The skills proved the actor’s presence of the actor in the fabric of the clothes of “Maria”, according to Expresso.
The situation, however, will not have been here. The Public Prosecution Service describes a series of violent and humiliating behaviors that have extended in the following hours.
Poetry, drug debt and death threat
Carloto Cotta He will have forced the victim to be “on his own hearing him quoting poetry until in the morning,” he will have taken his cell phone to access his bank account because he had a “debt to drug traffickers,” and threatened her from death.
“You don’t energize me, because if you touch me I kill you in self-defense,” he said, hitting his head with a book. Cotta Forced the victim to wash the dishes while “beating and spats” and threatened to call two friends to violate her.
Then he decided to take a shower, but not alone. He dragged the victim with him to the bathroom, because he wanted to “declare poetry” while he was washing. She refused, so he He threatened that “he cut her into pieces and gave her to eat dogs, as she had done with others”reports a sqm.
Victim managed to escape
After being able to escape Cotta’s house as he jumped from the first floor window, Maria sought help on the street and two men rescued her and contacted GNR.
Cotta was known to the two men and left “calm” from home. He said the woman had taken “some acids.”
At the hospital and the PJ, the victim confirmed that he was violated, which I had not initially said to GNR. The clinical report revealed that “Maria” presented clear signs of physical violence, bruises and scratches.
Cotta denies the accusations
During his interrogation to the Judicial Police (PJ), the actor claimed that sex between them had been consensualand that Maria was frustrated after she refused a more serious involvement with her, namely not wanting to recognize her children or lead her to social events.
The defense of Cotta, who has not yet publicly commented on the case, rejects the accusations, considering them “exacerbated and fantasy.” Cotta says she closed the house to the key, but just for dogs not being able to enter.
PJ wanted to file a complaint, but MP decides
Although PJ’s investigation has not initially gathered sufficient evidence to support the prosecution of crime against sexual freedom, prosecutor Marleen Cooreman, who considers it to be sufficient evidence to take the actor to trial and accuse the actor, based on the victim’s testimonials and witnesses, the expertise made to the clothing of “Maria” and the confirmed blows in the hospital.
Already the agent of PJ to whom the case was delivered considered that the steps made during the inquiry phase did not allow to carry the information to the case or (…) verification of crime against sexual freedom ”of the complainant, reports the express.
Beyond the public prosecution, the actor also responds to a particular charge of FIVE INJURY CRIMESfiled by the lawyer of “Maria”, Cristina Borges de Pinho.
The victim calls for a compensation of 43,500 euros for non -heritage damage and 1,500 euros for property damage. The lawyer justifies the request with the continuous suffering of the victim, who has difficulty sleeping and suffers from insomnia, crises of panic and anxiety, conditions that persist from the event.
Carloto Cotta was assiduous presence on Portuguese television Since at least 2006, having started at RTP1, as “John” in “My Family”. In TVI, he was a protagonist alongside Joana Solnado in the soap opera “Ilha dos Amores” (2007). After a short time at SIC and a return to RTP, he participated in TVI soap operas “A Taxora,“ The Web ”and returned to the lead roles in“ Prisoner ”.
Cotta entered this decade in the first Portuguese series of Netflix, “Glory”, and “Elite”.
