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Sixteen people were arrested this Tuesday in the case of alleged torture at the PSP police station in Rato. SIC found that one of the detainees worked at Lisbon airport.
The 16 new detainees are suspected of crimes of torture, serious harm to physical integrity and rapecommitted inside the Rato and Bairro Alto police stations, in Lisbon.
The case of torture at the PSP police station
Seven PSP agents the trial of crimes of serious torture, completed and attempted rape, abuse of power, possession of a prohibited weapon, serious and qualified offenses to physical integrity.
In January, two other agents were accused of torture and rape, targeting mainly drug addicts, homeless people and foreigners.
The indictment states that these two agents attacked people they had arrested with “punches and slaps and butts to the headhaving even filmed and photographed some of these situations and their victims”.
One of the cases reported is that of a Moroccan citizen who allegedly was sodomized with a stick by one of the defendants and beaten and then taken away in the patrol car and abandoned on the street.
Many of these abuses were filmed and shared in WhatsApp groups with dozens of other agents.
