Trial of Two Police Officers Accused of Torture Held Behind Closed Doors
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Two officers of the Portuguese Public Security Police (PSP) have been sitting since this Friday on the bench accused of torturing, assaulting and subjecting to sexual abuse persons detained at the Rato police station in central Lisbon. The victims were, for the most part, particularly vulnerable people: homeless, drug addicts, immigrants or detained for small crimes. The trial that began this Friday at the Lisbon Relationship Tribunal will be he…
Case goes back to the period between 2024 and 2025, when two police officers have assaulted people detained in the Rat's station. Judge has already considered there to be "serious probability" of conviction of the two agents.
The 22- and 26-year-old cops violently assaulted the detained and filmed the abuses. The victims were mostly drug addicts, suspected of small crimes, foreigners in an irregular or homeless situation.
The trial of the two police officers of the Rato station in Lisbon begins this Friday at 09:30 with the two agents responding to justice for a series of crimes that include torture, rape, abuse of power and offense to physical integrity.
The first session of the trial of two police officers from the Rat Station charged with crimes of torture and rape takes place at the closed door.
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