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FC Porto President André Villas-Boas
President of FC Porto will have to return to court after witnessing Thursday to address alleged video that Fernando Saul’s lawyer says he has to present.
FC Porto President André Villas-Boas denied this Thursday encouraging supporters to give in to partner in the elections to the social bodies of last April, after requesting an alleged video by Fernando Saul’s lawyer.
“It’s a ‘no theme’because the accreditation to the electoral act of FC Porto is made with a citizen card and a partner of the Football Club do Porto. I have not been asking people to vote with membership cards that are not theirsof course, because it is not part of my nature, ”he reiterated to journalists.
At the door of the São João Novo Court, in Porto, after his hearing, the leader of the ‘Blue and White’ emblem was fully contradicted the argument of lawyer Cristiana Carvalho, caused by the former officer of the club’s supporters, Fernando Saul, who alleged the existence of a video in which villas-boas instructed members to pass partner cardsif they could not go to the polls to vote for the elections in which Pinto da Costa was eventually succeeded.
Contrary to the will of the Public Prosecution Service, as well as the dragon lawyer, the alleged video may be admitted, so that the President Portista, legal representative of SAD Portista, assistant in the process, can be confronted with him.
Villas-Boas confesses that was “goose bumps” With the messages of the Super Dragon WhatsApp group that were reviewed to him, in which, as Fernando Madureira confessed, the “Fozeiros” and “Bethos da Foz” were the supporters of the new president.
For Villas-Boas, who deposed for several hours, the testimony of the people “who felt and suffered directly on the skin these presumed acts of aggression, coercion and intimidation” will be enlightening, lamenting this page in the history of the portistas.
“It was a sad night. The processes began [judiciais]we are here now to answer. I think it will still be a long process, but justice will be done. Everything that comes out of this process will be fundamental, ”noted the blue and white leader.
“Police must have been called”
After criticizing the “passivity” of social bodies for not calling the police to interrupt the AG during the morning session, the leader spent a large minutes to answer defense questions about his opinion on statutory review that was on the table the night that is being judged.
For the current president, “it was legitimate to doubt” the good faith of the proposal to change, for the proximity of the electoral act, which could be concerned, according to it, if the chairman of the table proposed, later dismissed, to follow the testimony of Henrique Ramos, the other assistant in the process that passed the witness.
Os 12 defendants of the Praterian Operation, including the former Super Dragon leader Fernando Madureira, began on Monday to answer for 31 crimes – 19 coercion and aggravated threat, seven offense to physical integrity in the scope of sports spectacle, one of public instigation to a crime, another of throwing objects or liquid products and three of attack on freedom of information, around the FC Porto Ago of November 2023.
The next trial session is scheduled for Monday afternoon at 1:45 pm.
