The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) into the twins case is considering filing a complaint with the Bar and the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the twins’ mother’s lawyer, Wilson Bicalho, after the agent invoked professional privilege to avoid answering questions. deputies at Friday’s hearing in parliament.
“I would really like to answer, so I submitted a request to the Order, but the request was rejected,” the lawyer defended himself. In response, CPI decided to allow 48 hours for delivery of the request for opinion and the response to the order itself, and also ask the institution to confirm the two documents.
On Wednesday, the Commission will consider whether to continue considering the complaint and whether to seek a lifting of professional secrecy so that Wilson Bicalho can be summoned to a new hearing, this time behind closed doors.
The hearing did not even go beyond the questions of Chega, the first party to take the floor before Daniela Martins’ lawyer, and the witness remained silent at the first question from Andre Ventura, who wanted to know when he met the children’s mother.
A position that caused protest on all sides. António Rodríguez (PSD) called it a “farce” and even asked that the hearing be removed from the record because it was “disgraceful testimony.” André Richaud (PS) said that this was “discrediting” and that “it was not a parliamentary decision but was regrettable.”
After a closed hearing that CPI President Rui Paulo Sousa (Chega) called “unacceptable,” the twins’ mother’s lawyer told reporters that “the law is clear” and that you are dealing with Parliament to ask the Order’s opinion.
Wilson Bicalho only made an initial statement, where he classified the accusations against his client, made at the previous hearing, as “calculated lies, told to the Portuguese man’s face without compassion and simply to play behind-the-scenes games”. He guaranteed that there was no evidence of a crime on the part of the children’s mother, “despite the political and media harassment” carried out by the media, and that Oeiras DIAP itself had stated that “there was not even any basis for the accusations”.
Regarding the treatment provided to the girls at a cost of four million euros, the lawyer emphasized that “they were not ahead of any user” and that the twins “had to wait the longest, six months.”
The lawyer also asked that the remainder of the hearing be held behind closed doors as he claimed the “images were distorted”, which MPs rejected.
Author: João Reis Alves
Source: CM Jornal
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