19 -year -old is suspected of aggravated violation crimes and minors pornography. In March 3 suspects of the same crimes had already been arrested.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has detained the fourth element of a group of influencers suspected of violating a 16 -year -old in February in Loures and sharing images of the “online” violation, the police force announced on Saturday.
The arrest of the last element of this group took place on Wednesday on the south bank of the Tagus. The young man is suspected of crimes of aggravated violation and pornography of minorsindicated the PJ in a statement. The 19 -year -old will be present to court for first interrogation and application of coercion measures.
On March 24, PJ the other three young people in the group, aged 17 and 19, suspected of the same crimes. At the time, the regional director of Lisbon of the Judicial Police, João Oliveira, said that the three detainees were influencers with “a very significant audience”.
In March, the three suspects were subject to the measures of coercion of periodic presentations and prohibition of contacts with the victim. But, what motivated protests from various areas of civil society.
he heard on the streets, asking for arrest of Loures’s influencers, days after the suspects, in freedom, published several videos where they talk about the case, one of them, even referring that in fact There were not three, but “four” the interveners.
“We would have with her to happen what was going to happenBut we arrived and we had nothing to do with her. We don’t touch you or anything“The suspect said at the time, noting that they had“ disgust ”.
The district holder of the case argued that the coercion measures were “proportional and appropriate” and corresponded to the request by the Public Prosecution Service.
The three are suspected of 51 crimes of kidnapping, violation and pornography of minors.
The investigation originated in a participation of the Beatriz Ângelo Hospital in Loures, Lisbon district, to the Public Security Police, having been activated to PJ for having the competence reserved for the investigation of these crimes.
The PJ also recalled, in the same note, that the crimes will have occurred “in the area near the victim’s residence, following a previously agreed meeting between this and one of the young people, his acquaintance.” The meeting was initially consented, but became a violation.
The suspects will have ignored the victim’s minor calls to stop, according to the court narrative.
“The 17-year-old has appeared at the meeting accompanied by friends, strangers of the victim, who, in group context, embarrassed the minor to sexual practices and filmed the acts against his will, spreading them on social networks,” he said.
According to the PJ, the site was subject to judicial inspection, with traces of crimes being collected by the Scientific Police Laboratory and the PJ’s Informatics Technological Expertise Unit and the investigation “allowed the identification and detention of all authors”.
One of the videos of the violation shared by one of three young influencers against a under 16 It was seen 32 thousand times on the social network where it was published, but despite the frightening number, there was no single complaint to the authorities
