The accused of attacking a young girl in a Fafe nightclub received a decision today

Three defendants accused of attempted murder of a young man who was brutally attacked outside a nightclub in Fafe, Braga district, in May 2022, will hear a decision from the Guimarães court this Friday.

The announcement of the decision is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. after two postponements: one due to a judges’ strike, the other due to a minor change in facts reported by the chairman of the panel of judges.

There were initially six defendants in the case: five men and one woman, aged between 20 and 36, but at the first hearing the court separated the three defendants: one because he was still at large, a woman and one man because they would not appear before the court and are in an uncertain part.

The main case then involved two defendants in pre-trial detention and one who is at large but prohibited from leaving the country, accused of co-authorship of qualified attempted murder, as well as several crimes against qualified physical integrity.

However, the suspect, who fled to the Netherlands, was detained in Lisbon and will be tried separately.

At the closing arguments, held on July 11, the Office of the Prosecutor (MP) demanded exemplary sentences for the defendants.

“Given the seriousness of the facts, the verdict should become an example for other citizens, especially young people. [para que percebam] that these facts are strictly punished and cannot happen. There are no justifications,” said the deputy prosecutor, defending the effective conviction of the defendants, exceeding the minimum provided for by criminal law.

According to the MP, following the facts, two of the members of the group that brutally attacked a 24-year-old young man outside the Mamma Mia nightclub in S. Gens, Fafe, in the early hours of May 29, 2022, fled to Brazil and the Netherlands.

The prosecutor recalled that when the victim left the club, “the defendants were already waiting for him and the attacks began,” adding that at no stage of the trial were there any confessions or remorse from the defendants. .

The deputy states in the indictment that “as a direct and necessary consequence of the conduct” of the defendants, the victim “sustained traumatic brain injury and maxillofacial trauma, both severe, underwent emergency surgery in the specialty of neurosurgery, and was placed in an induced coma.”

The young man spent more than four months recovering from his injuries but was left with consequences including a “permanent scar.”

The defendants’ lawyers, for their part, asked to change the legal classification of the crime of murder to attempted crimes against physical integrity, accusing the court of wanting to “put everyone in one bag, as if they were on trial.” for the criminal community.”