Detained suspected of killing ‘Manu’ at the Braga Academic Bar. Was preparing to escape the country

27-year-old Brazilian was “refugee in an isolated area of ​​the interior of the country” and “was preparing to flee abroad”. 19 -year -old dead at the academic bar had been involved in an occurrence in PSP 15 days earlier.

The Judicial Police (PJ) detained the suspect of killing a 19 -year -old next to the Academic Bar in Braga at dawn on Saturday.

The alleged perpetrator of the crime is 27 years old and is of Brazilian nationalityand will live in Porto. He is indicted for qualified homicide, a police source told Lusa on Thursday.

When it was caught, the suspect was “refugee in an isolated area from the interior of the country” and “It was preparing to escape abroad”advances the PJ in a statement.

According to the Correio da Manhã, he was in Castelo Branco and was going to flee with his girlfriend. The suspect, named Mateus Machado, according to, will be present to court for the first judicial interrogation and application of coercion measures.

What is known

At dawn on Saturday, the 12th grade student of D. Maria II Secondary School in Braga, known as ‘Manu’, was attacked with a white weapon At the door of the University of Minho Academic Bar, eventually dying in the hospital after two stab wounds, one in the right armpit and one in the chest.

The crime was registered at 5:30 am, following a feud that, according to PSP source, involved about 20 people.

The motivations of the crime are still ascertained, but ‘Manu’ was attacked after denouncing a group that would be tampered with girls drinks in that bar, With drugs, which led him to be characterized as a national hero on social networks by many netizens. Although this version went throughout the country, neither PJ nor PSP officially confirms it nor pronounced on it.

However, the judiciary confirms that “for reasons not yet fully clarified, elements of two distinct groups were expelled from the commercial establishment after a verbal discussion“.

Crime may also have happened after a confrontation between two rival groups. According to,, ‘Manu’ had been involved in an occurrence registered with Braga PSP two weeks before his death.

“It was beaten, it will also have beaten and there were several people involved in this contempt” that also resulted in death threats to Manuel Gonçalves, 15 days before the tragedy that is shocking the country, crime commentator Luís Maia advanced.

After the crime, they already registered in the building, which partially destroyed the academic bar, which is now ended indefinitely Following the incidents of the dawn on Saturday.

The bar building is owned by the University of Minho and was given to the Academic Association. However, the association concessed exploration to a businessman.