The investigation into PSP agents suspected of torture resulted in a leak of information. FootAt least one of the police officers knew that there was going to be a police operation with searches.
It was through a message that one of the PSP agents was informed that a police operation. SIC knows that the information will have arrived through from a PSP colleague linked to the investigation.
The seized cell phones confirm the exchange of messages that may have compromised the diligence. Fyesterday linked to the process explained to SIC that this type of information leak is recurrent in processes with some complexity in which police officers are being investigated.
On Tuesday, 15 PSP agents were detained in operation led by the Public Ministry who had previously arrested nine other police officers. With the new arrests, more proof was found, new where some of the agents boasted of acts of violence.
Of the 15 agents detained, 14 they will spend six nights in PSP police stations waiting for the that will only be known this Monday morning. ANDThis Saturday, in the interrogation allegations, the Public Ministry asked measures depriving freedom of four of the police, including a PSP chief. Phe also issued house arrest for three agents and suspension of duties for the rest.
In the presence of all lawyers, SIC knows that the prosecutor leaked this information as an example of a serious and concrete danger of disrupting the investigation.
The 14 police officers of PSP police stations in Rato and Bairro Alto in Lisbon are suspected of different crimes, Among the most serious, torture, rape and abuse of power.
