On June 18, 2021, Nuno Santos was harvested in A6 by the car in which he was following the former minister and circulating on the left, says the court, 155 km/hour. Only now, four years later, the case came to an end in court.
Four years after the deadly running, the He was sentenced to 14 months in prison, with suspended sentence, for murder for unconscious negligence. Marco Pontes is still forbidden to drive for nine months.
On the day June 18, 2021, Eduardo Cabrita was returning from an official visit to the GNR school in Portalegre – the flag oath of the guards course graduates.
At the same time, in A6, four workers from Archjardima company hired by the breeze, did work on the road. One of them, Nuno Santos, 43.
The van carrying the workers was standing at kilometer 77, at the fashionable emitted.
The car carrying Eduardo Cabrita enters A6 in Estremoz around 1:00 pm and heads toward Lisbon. In addition to the minister’s car, two more vehicles follow in the entourage.
A few minutes later, a few distance from the central separator, Nuno Santos is harvested by the car where the minister follows, who circulated in the left lanesays the court, the 155 km/hour. Therefore, in speeding.
Decision four years later
Only now, four years later, that the family, who lives in Escoural, Montemor-o-Novo, and the driver who drove the minister knew the outcome of the case.
In reading the sentence, the judge considered that the two actors contributed to the accident, attributing half the guilt to the former driver and the other half to the deadly victim.
To the defendant due to the speed to which the vehicle was driving, while the victim should not be in that place of A6 and the signaling of the work is disabled.
Marco Pontes was sentenced to 14 -month prison sentencesuspended in its execution, for the crime of unconscious negligence homicide and is still inhibited from conducting for nine months, a decision that did not leave its defense totally satisfied. Your lawyer guarantees that it will appeal the sentence.
Regarding the claim for compensation made by the victim’s family, the court sentenced the defendant to payment of an amount close to 163 thousand euros to the woman and daughters. The insurer will have to pay 198 thousand euros.
The decision will now be analyzed by the victim’s family to consider the appeal.
The situation has become even more controversial since the Ministry of Admitting Internal is responsible for the Road Safety Folder.
SIC accompanied Eduardo Cabrita’s entourage
Four months after the accident, SIC tried to understand if the behavior of the entourage had changed at official travel.
We accompanied the route of the three cars of Eduardo Cabrita’s entourage, which returned to Lisbon after a visit to the Torres Novas Police School.
Without emergency reasons, without justificationand without signaling, in less than the speed already exceeded 160 kilometers per hour. Eduardo Cabrita fired a few weeks later.
