This Wednesday, the lawyer of Eduardo Cabrita considered the position of the deputy to be correct, since he stated that the accused did not act in the case of the fatal collision on the A6 motorway, and said that the case only happened because it involved a former minister.
“The prosecutor’s office (MP) took the right position, which [foi]In fact, the one he took throughout the entire process,” Manuel Magalhães e Silva, defense lawyer for the former Minister of the Interior (MAI), told reporters.
Following the procedural debate that took place this Wednesday at the Court of Appeal of Évora (TRE), the lawyer declared that “there is no responsibility” on the part of Eduardo Cabrita for the accident.
“And this is all happening because he is a former minister, otherwise this would not have happened,” he criticized, saying when asked if he hoped his client would not be made public: “I really hope not.”
In the understanding of Magalhães e Silva, “hierarchical subordination [do motorista ou do chefe de segurança] This has absolutely nothing to do with what happened in the accident.”
In a mock debate this Wednesday, which took place after the end of the hearing in the case of Eduardo Cabrita, a parliamentary judge said that the former minister and his former head of security, Nuno Diaz, should not stand trial in the case of a hit-and-run that killed a worker on a highway. 6 (A6), in the Evora area, since there is no evidence to support its pronunciation.
In the case of the former MAI employee, the prosecutor mentioned that during the investigation it was mentioned that Cabrita was working, answering emails and phone calls while traveling and was not aware of the presence of a pedestrian on the road.
He also considered that it had not been proven that the former minister knew the speed at which the car in which he was being transported was traveling, and did not give information to the driver Marco Pontes about the speed of the car.
As for the then head of the security service, according to the deputy, in addition to the fact that he was driving another car as part of the delegation, he, among other arguments, was not aware of the speed at which the former minister’s car was traveling.
There are three defendants in the case: Eduardo Cabrita, the driver Marco Pontes, the only one accused of negligent homicide, and the head of the security service of the former MAI, Nuno Diaz.
An investigation is an optional procedural step that can be requested by the accused or his assistants and which serves to test whether the evidence is strong enough to bring the accused to trial.
On June 18, 2021, in the municipality of Évora, Nuno Santos, an employee of a company carrying out repair work on the A6 motorway, was fatally hit by a car driven by the then MAI.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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