Firefighter detained in Madeira for domestic violence boasted to have “an attitude of man”

He was filmed to assault the woman in front of her 9 -year -old son. Who knew him said he did the same with his lover; And still bragged before his friends. It was arrested this Tuesday.

PSP has detained a firefighter suspected of domestic violencein Madeira, after a warrant of detention issued by the Public Prosecution Service.

In a statement, the PSP Madeira Regional Command indicates that the 35 -year -old man, natural and resident in Machicohe was arrested following the “issuance of a warrant of detention out of flagrant offense by the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action – Public Prosecutor of the District of Madeira”.

According to PSP, the man was identified in the early hours of Monday, after the police were contacted by the 34 -year -old victim, through 112and referred the case to the Public Prosecution Service.

The images of aggressions, which happened in the presence of the son the victim and the aggressor, 9 years old, were captured by video surveillance chambers at the victim’s house and widespread on social networks.

In the video, The child is heard to beg for his father to stop assaulting his motherbut the aggressions continue.

The detainee, called Milton Santoswho is a firefighter in Machico, is detained; And awaits the first judicial interrogation, this Thursday.

I did the same to the lover and boasted

According to, Milton Santos’s friends shared in private groups on social networks that aggressions were known and recurrent.

In addition, the firefighter would also have a loverwho also suffered, in the hands of the firefighter, physical and psychological maltreatment.

In anonymous, friends also confided that also the barber in Machico He told and laughed at the stories of the aggressions, demonstrating pride in what he said he was “an attitude of man”.

“I saw some messages and I was blind”

Speaking to Madeira, Milton admitted the aggressions and said he was “Deeply repented of their actions”.

The firefighter justified the acts with “messages” that will have left him out of himself: “We have been married for 18 years. I saw some messages and I was blindThis is what happened and I apologize, ”he said.

On social networks, images of the victim are also widespread after the aggressions, where a great bruise is visible in an eye, which, according to TVI, subjected it to two surgical interventions.

The woman is now at family home with police protection. The child is also in custody of family members.

The command of Machico Municipal Firefighters, in a publication issued on social networks, presented “his profound dismay for the news that circulates in the media, involving an element of the corporation, and which understands to be a completely reprehensible act.”

Os Firefighters say it is “totally against any kind of violence” And they hope “that the case will be treated by the proper entities responsible, calling for justice to be done.”

“Legal services are also already taking the proper procedures,” they add in the same publication.