Helder Malheiro and Augusto Dinis will have descended the wall using a rope made of sheets, but were captured 12 hours later, about four kilometers from Alcoentre’s arrest. This is the latest escape episode of a Portuguese prison establishment. But in recent months, There is no shortage of cases of prisoners who fled and were eventually caught.
Proof of this is the last months, which have been marked by various escape attempts.
On September 7 of last year, five prisoners fled from the Vale de Jews prison in Alcoentre. Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, Rodolf José Lohrmann, Mark Cameron Roscaleer, Shergili Farjiani and Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro planned the escape to detail, but that had not been the first time.
Fábio ‘Cigano’ Loureiro, 33, was recaptured on October 7 in Tangier, Morocco. A month later, Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, 61, and sentenced to 24 years in prison, was arrested in a house in a small town in the municipality of Montalegre.
Already Shergili Farjiani, 40, and to whom a seven -year sentence was applied, was recaptured in Italy on December 10, 2024.
Last month, a man who served a four-year prison sentence for domestic violence evaded the Sintra prison establishment while performing painting.
The prisoner was painting the walls of the Rumos Building, next to the Sintra Prison School, in the Lisbon district, when “he stole the surveillance of the prison guards and evaded,” DGRSP said in a statement.
Last week, also a prisoner, now from the Vale do Sousa Prison, was on the run for a few hours, after taking a trip to a clinic to Perform tests.
The most recent episode happened this Monday. The prisoners Helder Malheiro and Augusto Dinis, 37 and 44, They fled the prison of Alcoentre at 18:20.
According to what it was possible to determine, the two prisoners fled from wing B, through the area where the watchdows are disabled due to the lack of prison guards.
They will have descended the wall using a rope made with sheets.
In September 2024, the Directorate-General for Justice Policies has revealed that in the last 15 years They fled 160 inmates to the Portuguese prison system.
