At issue is an incident, classified by the Public Ministry as an attempted qualified murder of five FC Porto supporters, among other crimes, after a roller hockey game between the two clubs.
The Public Ministry (MP) charged seven Sporting fans with attempted murder of five FC Porto supporters, among other crimes, after a roller hockey game between the two clubs, that constitutional body announced today.
According to , the MP filed charges on Wednesday against seven defendants, one of whom was a repeat offender, for committing, in co-authorship, five crimes of qualified homicide, in the attempted form.
The Sporting fans, five of whom are in pre-trial detention and two subject to house arrest with an electronic bracelet, are also accused of 10 crimes of qualified physical harm, one crime of fire, five crimes of robbery (one qualified and completed and four attempted) and three crimes of qualified damage.
The investigation by the Lisbon DIAP, in assistance of the Judiciary Police, is based on events that occurred on June 10, at Lumiar, in Lisbon, where five FC Porto fans were attacked and suffered burns, requiring hospital treatment, after the fifth game of the National roller hockey semi-finals of the 2024/25 season.
According to the indictment, the defendants “acted as a group, as part of a plan that aimed to set fire to the vehicles in which members of the rival club were traveling – which they managed to achieve in relation to one of the vehicles -, with the occupants inside, not allowing them to leave, inflicting blows and blows, stoning the victims and cars, and appropriating valuable objects that they had in their possession”.
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