MP investigates arrests and alleged attacks by the PSP at a supermarket in Porto

Prosecutors are investigating an episode that took place last week at a supermarket in Cedofeita, Porto, which led to two arrests and a police complaint, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said Thursday.

“The facts in question, as well as the complaint to which she refers, the receipt of which is confirmed, are under investigation by the DIAP. [Departamento Central de Investigação e Ação Penal] do Porto,” PGR says in response to Lusa.

This is an alleged theft that took place on the 15th at 17:00 in the Pingo Doce supermarket, located in the Sedofeita parish of the municipality of Porto.

Luce On the 17th, the PSP Porto Metropolitan Command confirmed that a 41-year-old man residing in Porto was arrested “accused of having crossed the ticket office without paying for 40 euros worth of beauty products”. material that you “hide” in your backpack.

“Manager [do supermercado] and the guard brought the man under arrest. Several citizens tried to prevent the man from being detained,” a source at the PSP said.

In addition to the arrest of a suspected theft, a 28-year-old woman living in Vila Nova de Gaia was arrested for “resisting and coercing a representative of authority.”

Following the event, another 31-year-old woman living in Porto filed a complaint against a PSP agent for “breach of physical integrity” at the Sedofeita police station, she told Luza, adding that “they refused to identify the offending police officer.”

The complaint against the PSP agent was also confirmed by Porto’s PSP, stating that the woman was treated by an ambulance at the scene.

In a report from Hospital dos Lusíadas, contacted by Inés Rodrigues, the author of the complaint against the police officer, it is stated: “Victim of aggression with the use of a police baton [que] results [em] hematoma on the buttocks and lower third of the back of the thigh and abrasions on the anterior surface of the left wrist.”

On the 16th, Inez Rodriguez went to the Institute of Forensic Medicine, but the report was sent directly to the Ministry of Justice, where she went the next day to file a new complaint, as she was informed that the complaint filed with the PSP was sufficient and that in short it would a call to make statements.

The PSP Metropolitan Command in Porto said it had already approached Jerónimo Martins, a commercial establishment of the network, with a request to keep the CCTV images.

Jeronimo Martins’ group also in response to Luce guaranteed that “the guard on duty at Pingo Dosa did not commit any aggression towards the gentleman who was caught stealing personal care products from the store.”

On Tuesday, the Inspectorate General of Internal Administration (IGAI) announced that it had opened an investigation “aimed at investigating the circumstances and consequences of the actions of PSP elements in or inside the Pingo Doce supermarket in Cedofeita (Porto) and that resulted in the injury of at least one citizen.”