“They wanted to ensure that they continued to have direct funding” from FC Porto. MP wants harder penalties for the couple for leading the alleged planning of aguista disorders. The couple’s defenses asked for acquittal.
The Public Prosecution Service (MP) requested this Monday’s imprisonment more than five years for defendants Fernando and Sandra Madureira, Vítor ‘Cato’, Hugo Polaco, Vitor ‘Aleixo’, and his son, who has the same name, in the context of.
Attorney Susana Catarino also defended suspended penalties for the remaining six defendants and more serious convictions for Fernando and Sandra Madureirafor leading the alleged planning of those of the General Assembly (AG) of FC Porto of November 2023.
The couple’s defenses Madureira asked for the acquittal of all crimes of which they are accused
In the final allegations, at the São João Novo Court, in Porto, the MP magistrate began by characterizing a “excessive interest” of the former leader of the portista cheerleader in the approval of the statutes in voting, motivated by the income that was shelter from the then direction of the club.
“Fernando Madureira explained that it has income related to the club’s merchandising sales. Fernando and Sandra Madureira wanted to ensure that they continued to have direct financing. The non -approval of the statute review proposal was seen as a defeat, they had one, ”he claimed.
He also pointed out that the provocation of the intimidating climate came from a collusion with the AG table and the private security contracted by the blue and white emblem, which will have remained passive and conniving with the discounts that occurred in a concerted action.
In addition, the MP praised the witnesses of the accusation because they “given voice” to the, highlighting their “courage” to contradict versions that classifies from incoherent by the defendants.
The prosecutor made an extensive reading of messages in groups of super dragons on the social network WhatsApp, with incentives for illicit entry on the part of non-members in the AG and the creation of a climate of coercion with the supporters of the putative candidacy of André Villas-Boas for the presidency of the dragons.
Argued that Fernando Madureira distributed accreditation bracelets and coordinated the entries In the Arena Dragon Pavilion, while Sandra Madureira was mainly in charge of preventing fans from filming inside the enclosure, among other allegations.
“It’s time to do justice before those who could not even get up, those who had to go to the hospital, those who still live today afraid of the defendants. It’s important to pass the message to the defendants that they can’t do what they want,” he concluded.
In the morning, the allegations of FC Porto, who was assistant in the process, with the club pointing out that the testimonial evidence was limited by many of those present in the AG feel intimidated to testify.
“If the prosecution sinned, it was by defect. The evidence produced is full, There was a plan set”Reiterated FC Porto’s lawyer, agreeing with the penalties requested by the MP.
Corroborating the thesis of the prosecution, criticized the way the defenses operated throughout the process, from the way they addressed witnesses to the request of sessions for full viewing of 18 hours of video surveillance imagesduring the instructional phase.
“There can never be violent behaviors in sport. The act of the defendants is known and publicized. In the inquiry phase, Fernando Madureira said he was a cheerleader and not the scout. Fernando Madureira’s form of action will have been unpunished in the past and has been devalued, ”he said.
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In final allegations at the São João Novo Court, the lawyer of former portista’s leader Super Dragões, Gonçalo Cerejeira, reiterated that the accusation did not act with the intention of “search and search for truth”.
“The work of the MP is not being able to condemn or defend pilgrims theses. Your duty is the search and search for the truth and that is not what we saw here. Since the choice of witnesses to the questions asked, it showed total ignorance to perceive distinct sociological realities”, He said, after the MP requested an effective arrest penalties greater than five years to Fernando and Sandra Madureira, in addition to four other defendants.
Fernando Madureira’s legal representative assured that there was never a prior planning of the disregard of the General Assembly (AG) of FC Porto of November 2023, maintaining that the members of the table themselves They only learned of the change of the magna meeting site on the very day.
“There is no evidence that there was a prior plan. It is no crime to support a candidate or campaign, but the MP stigmatized those who supported Pinto da Costa and classifying them as a criminal,” he said, also noted that several witnesses listed by the accusation stigmatized elements of super dragons as “low social stratum, rude and poorly dressed.”
Also criticized what he considered to have been the Sensationalism of Social Communication in the coverage of the trial. “They selected what they wanted to make Fernando Madureira in a target to Abater. The media, namely the sensationalist, was only able to exponent a narrative to feed a soap opera. They fed a hate audience. Journalists, from the newsrooms to fieldwork, did not honor their commitments,” he said.
The lawyer associated the process with André Villas-Boassaying that the current president of FC Porto is the only great beneficiary of the prosecution of the MP, and again mentioned that the statutory review, if approved, would not benefit at all represented or the direction then in office, chaired by Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
“The MP chose for witnesses group of friends and acquaintances at the request of the opposing list [de André Villas-Boas]. The cousin of a current vice president of FC Porto [João Begonha Borges] He was the main annual aproder, this demonstrates the limitations of the accusation, ”he concluded.
Even before, the allegations of Sandra Madureira, With his representative, Miguel Marques Oliveira, criticizing the fact that it is a co -authored charge and with a sports phenomenon, something that disagrees for being a “private law” AG.
The causal argued that the prosecution is based on assumptions and not facts, stating that his represented “never had any direct or indirect involvement” in the preparation of disagreements at the Magna meeting.
During the afternoon, the lawyers of Henrique Ramos, assistant in the case and Victor ‘Cato’, also intervened, with the allegations to continue on Tuesday.
The 12 defendants of Operation Praetorian, including the former Super Dragon leader Fernando Madureira, began in March 17 to respond by at the São João Novo Court, in Porto, under strong police apparatus in the immediate vicinity. At question are 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 the freedom of information, around FC Porto’s AG in November 2023.
Among the dozen defendants, Fernando Madureira is the only one in pre -trial detentionthe stronger measure of coercion, while the rest were released at different stages.
