António Pedro Santos / Lusa
The PSP agent who shot Odair Moniz at Cova da Moura, Amadora, was suspended from his duties, determined the Amadora Court on Friday, regarding the aggravation of coercion measures.
O Police who killed Odair Monizon October 21, 2024, was suspended. The PSP agent was heard this Friday at the Amadora Court, and declined to make statements.
In the accusation deducted last January, the Public Prosecution Service requested that, in addition to the Identity and Residence Term, the measure of coercion of suspension of duties in the PSP was also applied, as there is a high possibility of “danger of disturbance of public order and tranquility”.
The PSP agent now accused of the crime of homicide He was in low medical and had no date to return to work, knowing that he had been transferred from the squadron where he worked at the time he shot Odair Moniz on October 21, 2024.
According to the prosecution, to which Lusa had access, Odair Moniz tried to escape from PSP and resist the detention, but using the White Weapon, contrary to the official statement issued by the PSP National Directorate.
Contradictions in the description
43-year-old Cape Verdean citizen and resident in the Zambujal neighborhood of Amadora, was shot by a PSP agent In the early hours of, in the neighborhood of Cova da Moura, in the same county, district of Lisbon, and died shortly after, at the São Francisco Xavier Hospital in Lisbon.
The initial statement stated that Odair would have resisted a detention, and tried to assault agents “using the white weapon.” But the agent who killed Odair He admitted, then, was not threatened with a knife.
The next phase of this process is the trial, since the defense decided not to ask for the opening of an instruction.
“After consultation and examination of the case, we understand that the process should move to the trial phase,” he told Lusa Ricardo Serrano VieiraPolice lawyer.
The MP also requested the extraction of certificate for autonomous investigation of the alleged Falsification of PSP News Autoconsidering that the same “suffers from” regarding its authorship and the hours to which it was elaborated.
