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Mortagua hopes to overturn Mamadou Ba’s sentence

BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua said this Friday that she hopes that in the second instance the judgment of the anti-racist activist Mamadou Ba to pay 2,400 euros for defamation of the far-right activist Mario Machado will be annulled.

Anti-racism activist Mamadou Ba was sentenced this Friday to pay 2,400 euros for defaming the far-right activist Mario Machado in a case related to the death of Cape Verdean Alcindo Monteiro in 1995 in Lisbon.

“Mario Machado, a convicted neo-Nazi, was part of the group that spread terror the night Alcindo Monteiro was killed. It is incomprehensible that Mamadou Ba is condemned for confirming this fact,” lamented BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua in a statement. publishing on social media network X (formerly Twitter).

Mariana Mortagua expressed the hope that “this decision will be overturned in the second instance.”

We are talking about a sentence written by Mamadou Ba on the social network X (formerly Twitter), in which the anti-racism activist named Mário Machado as one of the main persons involved in the murder of Alcindo Monteiro in Bairro Alto.

Reading out the verdict, the judge emphasized that “Mario Machado did not kill Alcindo Monteiro” and that the accused Mamadou Ba explained this fact as “repeated ad nauseum”, insulting the honor of the assistant in the trial (Mario Machado), his wife and children.

The court considered that on the part of Mamadou Ba there was a clear desire to “denigrate” Mario Machado, emphasizing that the latter’s criminal past does not interfere with his right to honor, especially since the Portuguese criminal process is based on resocialization and does not allow the stigmatization of those who have already served time.

Leaving the court after the trial, lawyer Isabel Duarte read to journalists a statement from Mamadou Ba entitled “The state capitulates and justice whitens the Nazi,” in which she states that “by declaring that Mario Machado is one of the main defendants in the murder, Alcindo Monteiro is simply is the kindest way to describe how he stood out on the night of the Black Hunt for the violence with which he attacked his victims over the head with a baseball bat until they left them soulless.”

For his part, Mário Machado told reporters that the sentencing decision “was a victory for Portuguese justice” and also “a victory over the Portuguese left” after prominent political figures such as Francisco Luza, Rui Tavares and Francisca Van Dunem came to give indications. in favor of Mamadou Ba, “the court did not allow itself to be pressured.”

Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal

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