Last week, Socrates also announced that he filed a complaint against the Portuguese State at the European Court of Human Rights.
José Sócrates tries, once again, to wage the judgment of the The defense of the former prime minister filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, with the so-called “detrimental request for a detriment” to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
If this request is accepted, the judgment will be suspended until there is a response from the Courtheadquartered in Luxembourg.
To which SIC has learned, the defense of the former Prime Minister again disputes the decision of the Court of Appeal, which sent the case to trial, having corrected the qualification of the crime of corruption.
The judges justified this change with the fact that Public Prosecution Service had a “writing lapse”.
The refusal points out, however, that “despite the numerous opportunities it had to do so, the prosecutor has never referred to any ‘lapse’ in legal qualification – neither in interrogations, nor in the instructional debate.”
This Tuesday there is another trial session of Operation Marquis and it is expected that José Sócrates will speak in court.
