Actor António Capelo
The General Inspection of Education and Science opened a process of investigations to ACE-School of Arts in Porto, after receiving a complaint about that institution, the Ministry of Education said on Sunday.
The Directorate of ACE-School of Arts, in Porto, on Thursday, after coming to public, last week, witnesses to account for alleged cases of abuse by teachers of that institution over several years.
“The General Inspection of Education and Science determined the opening of a process of investigations, following a complaint that filed on September 8,” the official source of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, which had also confirmed IGEC’s decision to public and expressed newspapers, told Lusa.
Last week began to be disclosed on pages on social networks, namely and, Testimonies of students and alumni From Ace to account for a climate of intimidation, abuse and humiliation within the school and improper teachers approaches.
The board of the school, which teaches artistic professional courses from 10th to 12th grade, said that it made the decision to resign because it considered that “the present moment requires serenity, stability and mission protection and the values that Ace – School of Arts represents ”.
One of the main views in the testimonies is the actor António Capelowhich taught at Ace until 2022.
To join the shared testimonies on social networks, another, made public by the Left block. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the party reports that it received last week, “by a person, elected site of the block and former actor student António Capelo, the face -to -face account of very serious acts committed by this theater teacher ”.
According to the bloc’s statement, this report, of facts allegedly occurred for over ten years, “It is consistent with others, cited publicly in the last days ”.
On Friday, the newspaper published a statement of the person concerned, Mia FilipaEducator and former student of ACE, in the process of transition from gender, who identifies He was a 16 -year -old boy when he claims to have been the victim of sexual abuse by António Capelo.
The actor denies the accusationshaving said on Thursday, in statements to Lusa, to be being victim of “a Kabbalah” with false accusationsand assured that he will fight in justice for honor and truth.
“Categorically reject any type of action that leads to a sexual act with students. I categorically reject it, ”said António Capelo to Lusa, assuming that he read some of the statements that came to public and saying that“ some are a tenthAnd many are not their students.
“There are a lot of people talking against me that I don’t know anywhere“, These.
The 69 -year -old actor, who was one of ACE’s founders in 1990, confessed that Never felt so “wronged in life”reiterating that the anonymous accusations that are being published on social networks are false criminal complaint to the Public Prosecution Service Against “An Anonymous Page on Instagram managed by a former student of the Ace de Famalicão School”.
The actor, currently working on a TVI on TVI, says he is “Absolutely against this universe And this world that walks on social networks JUDGE PEOPLE ANONYLY”With“ absolutely indescribable ”things.
António Capelo assumed to Lusa who, over the years, invited students to his home to “go to books” and “dinner, because needed to eat“. The actor also said that he even invited students to live in his home,” because had nowhere to live”.
“I housed a student from the Algarve for two months, who had an accident in Porto, had to be operated on one leg and stayed at my house. I treated him like my son and now I am accused of taking boys home”Said the actor.
The actor now fears for his continuity in projects in which he is currently involved. António Capelo said that on Friday had a marked recital in the church of Cedofeita (Porto) and which has already been postponed, by mutual agreement of the parties.
“This is hideous. Hide. The people who do this never think about what is on that side,” laments the actor, criticizing the state’s statement, which he classified as “execrable” and from which the party should be “deeply embarrassed.”
Official source of ACE School of Arts confirmed to Lusa that this institution created on January 6 this year Denunciation channel“Following a reformulation of the school’s internal regulation”, having not received any complaints through it.
ACE, founded in 1990 in Porto, with a pole in Vila Nova de Famalicão, has 64 effective workers today and is affirmed with “a reference educational project in training and creation in the domain of the arts of the show”.
