Student caught to copy on examination assault law professor at the University of Lisbon

The student was annoyed when he was caught copying and left for the aggression against one of the teachers. Another student who tried to wage the aggressor was also bitten.

The Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon was the scene of a serious incident this Tuesday, July 22, when a university professor was violently assaulted by a student after it was caught with a cada during an appeal of the Commercial Law discipline 2.

The episode took place around 3:30 pm, in a test with about 40 students, which represented the last opportunity to complete the discipline before 2026. Professor Catarina Coelho detected that a student had paddles glued with tape to her commercial law code. After confronting him discreetly, the student abandoned the visibly disturbed room.

About 15 minutes later, the student returned exalted, claiming Have been trying for five years to pass the chair and threw several objects toward the teacher, including books and school supplies. Professor Ana Filipa Santos Rocha, also present in the room, stood between the aggressor and the colleague, being then clinging to the hair and pushed with violenceeventually hitting the head in the structure that supports the teacher’s table. He was assisted at the scene and later sent to the hospital.

The situation got worse when other students tried to immobilize the aggressor. One of them was bitten on the arm, being bleeding. According to witnesses, the student was trying to reach the teacher again, who managed to leave the classroom and find refuge with a college security guard. THE PSP was called to the place And it took over the occurrence, having also been mobilized an ambulance, says the.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the law school confirmed that the two teachers are in shock. The management announced the opening of a Disciplinary Process to the studentwhich was preventively suspended from all school activities. The college will also be assisted in the criminal proceedings that will follow its procedures.