Rodrigo Antunes / Lusa
Leader of the 1143 far-right group will serve a 2-year and 10 months prison sentence for incitement of hatred and violence.
Militant Neonazi Mário Machado was today detained at his home, in compliance with a detention warrant related to the conviction to two years and 10 months in prison by discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence.
According to his lawyer, José Manuel Castro, the militant Neonazi was arrested around 4:30 pm and will be sent to the Lisbon Prison, where he will ask to be transferred to the Caldas da Rainha chain.
“The persecution was so fierce that they didn’t even give Mario Machado time to surrender. He went to the EPL, where he will be provisionally,” he told The Lawyer.
Mário Machado I had announced that it would surrender next Monday, May 26, at 3:00 pm, at the Caldas da Rainha Prison, an announcement that “It will have anticipated the detention without any need, considered José Manuel Castro.
By the end of Wednesday morning the lawyer had no information about issuing a warrant of detention.
The neonazi militant was arrested to penalty After losing his last appeal in the Constitutional Court, in the process in which he was convicted of publications on social network X (former Twitter) against leftist women who aimed in particular the teacher and former director of the Renata Cambra Socialist Alternative Movement.
The appeal to the Constitutional Court came after the Court of Appeal confirmed the penalty of the first instance and rejected the allegations of Mario Machado that the statements on trial was a “humor exercise.”
Concerned in this process were messages published on the social network, attributed to Mário Machado and Ricardo Pais – also condemned in this process – in which they appealed to the “forced prostitution” of the women of the leftist parties, and which in particular renata Cambra.
Mário Machado and Ricardo Pais were convicted in the first instance on May 7, 2024, with defense attorney José Manuel Castro at the time expressed his surprise with the sentence, considering it “unjustified and heavy” and hope in a acquittal of Mario Machado for the relationship of Lisbon, which was not occurred.
The Lisbon relationship confirmed this Thursday that “the applicant’s criminal records remove the possibility of applying any penalty other than arrest, actually serving in a prison.”
