The car where the Minister of Internal Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, who involved a deadly victim for being run over
Former Internal Affairs Minister Eduardo Cabrita considered that what was “unusual” in the deadly running of a worker in A6, near Évora, by the car where there was “there was a person in the middle of the highway”.
On June 18, 2021, a Official vehicle on which Eduardo Cabrita ran over deadly Nuno Santos43 years old, a worker from a company that maintained A6, to kilometer 77.6 of the road, in the star.
On December 3, 2021, the prosecutor accused the Driver Marco Homicide Bridges for Rude negligence.
That same day, the then Minister of Internal Affairs presented to his.
This Thursday, Eduardo Cabrita was heard at the Évora court as a witness in the trial of his former driver Marco Pontes.
The former ruler began by reporting what happened, saying that during the trip to Lisbon after a trip to Portalegre, he talked to his deputy, responded to messages and calls and did not look at the road.
“I just realized that there was something anommal when the driver and the lieutenant colonel Paulo Machado [o oficial de ligação da GNR no ministério]talking loudly, [disseram] ‘What is this’ and, much above, I realized a person in the middle of the road”He described.
According to the former Minister of Internal Affairs, the car that carried him, driven by Marco Pontes, He gave “a turn to the right side” and crashed, but could not avoid the clash“On the left side” of the car, with the pawn.
“Unusual was there was a person in the middle of the road”
Cabrita considered that what was “unusual” in the deadly running of the worker by the car where he followed “there was a person in the middle of the highway.”
“I am tremendously penalizing that the death of Nuno Santos [o trabalhador que morreu] It marked this road accident, but what is unusual, of so many trips I did, was there was a person in the middle of the highway, ”he said.
“It is unusual to see a person in a half of the road, in a highway that was not closed to traffic or was limited”reaffirmed.
Cabrita said not having the notion of the speed that followed the vehicle.
In relation to vehicles carrying rulers, the former minister clarified that “The driving responsible is the driver” And that the rules are fulfilled, noting that whenever it was necessary to comply with a time warned the driver, which “here did not happen”.
On the signaling of work on the road, the former minister reaffirmed that in the area of the accident did not observe any sign And that when I was already leaving the scene in another delegation car, it saw “a work van stopped about hundreds of meters ahead.”
Cabrita praised Driving of Marco Pontes
“In over 10 years I never had an accident on the road”he said, referring to the period in which he held governing positions.
Cabrita revealed that he met Marco Pontes at the time he was Secretary of State for Local Administration, a position he held between 2005 and 2009, recognizing that it was the driver who most often led himwhile he was Minister of Internal Affairs.
“There has never been a touch of plate over six years until this tragic accident,” he said, pointing to him “Absolute security in the way it drives” and also personal qualities.
On the way out of the court, the former ruler merely told journalists that, with this statement, he did “what is up to the witnesses to do in a process, which is to contribute to the determination of the truth.”
