Mário Cruz / Lusa
“Jokes” about Gypsies, RSI, Zero Movement, with arrives. Jorge S., police, accused of kidnapping and qualified homicide of a 26 -year -old Moroccan.
On a trip to the presence of Jorge S. On social networks, it found a series of publications and shares of racist, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-immigration content and with false information.
Between “jokes” about Gypsies, about “use” of the RSI by immigrants or publications displaying the entry of “Afro -descendants, Gypsies, Immigrants and LGBT” in the “Security Forces”, the PSP agent, a Moroccan immigrant, shares videos and photographs by André Ventura, but also by Rita Matias and Leaders of the Critical Party, The “uncontrolled” immigration, denounces the weekly.
In one of the publications, Jorge S. denounces the “consequences of illegal immigration”, with an image in which he refers – wrongly – that in Portugal offers “free home, free health service, right to school, food, mobile phone and money” to those who are illegal.
Messages of support for the Zero Movement, a group that emerged after the conviction of PSP agents for aggression to young black people in Amadora, were also detected on police social networks, accused along with colleague Pedro B.
Aissa Ait Aissa, 26, died in March 2024, after 19 days hospitalized In the intensive care of the Faro Hospital, victim of multiple head injuries. Initially, the family thought it was a run over, but the autopsy concluded that the marks were not compatible with such a hypothesis, reinforcing the aggression version with striking object.
The victim’s family lawyer, Miguel Vicente Bernardo, maintains that the “The defendant’s” feeling of hatred “was the” true engine of criminal conduct “, claiming that hostility against immigrants and Muslims was the origin of violence. For the family, motivation was not only circumstantial but ideological.
According to the accusation, after two episodes of disagreements in overalls in Olhão, in which the young man and a friend were involved, the agents intervened but, even without formal complaint, decided to hand them up and take them to an isolated location in Pechão. It was when Aissa was beaten while remained handcuffed, and then abandoned by the agents.
The victim’s family requires the Portuguese state a compensation of 1.6 million euros: Parents had no economic means to move to Portugal and it was the Moroccan consulate to assume the costs of body transfer, they justify.
