The two suspects pretended to be PSP agents and were identified as perpetrators of another previous robbery attempt.
Two men, aged 20 and 40, were arrested by the PSP and the oldest was placed in preventive detention for allegedly pretending to be police officers, attacking and robbing a homeless man in Évora, it was announced today.
In a statement, the Évora District Command of the PSP indicated that the two men, arrested last Friday, are suspected of, in the early hours of that day, having approached a homeless man in the city “posing as law enforcement agents”.
The suspects then woke up the victim with “attacks on the face” and allegedly took “the objects he had in his pocket, including the only money he had”, according to the police statement.
After the situation was reported, police from the Évora PSP Criminal Investigation Squadron carried out “measures that allowed the perpetrators of the theft to be identified”, who were still in possession of “some objects stolen, a few hours after the crime”.
According to the PSP, evidence was collected that was considered “sufficient to indict the suspects as perpetrators of the robbery” and a proposal was made to the court to issue arrest warrants outside of flagrante delicto, which was accepted.
The suspects were arrested and, after being presented for the first judicial interrogation, on Saturday, they were preventive detention was ordered for the older man, while the younger man was subject to weekly presentations and a ban on contacts.
According to the Police, on Friday, after the warrants were issued, the two men were identified as perpetrators of an attempted robbery, with similar outlines to the other and which had occurred minutes before the report in an artery in Évora.
