A man suspected of attempting to kill a Public Security Police (PSP) officer while he was present at a domestic violence scene in Leiria will appear in court in April.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office (MP), the 41-year-old accused, who is in pre-trial detention, will answer before the Judicial Court of Leiria for crimes related to domestic violence, ill-treatment, attempted murder and possession of a prohibited weapon. ) the indictment to which Luz’s agency had access.
The decision states that the accused and his partner lived together since 2003, from this relationship they have a daughter.
“Approximately four years ago, the defendant began drinking heavily and becoming jealous “of his partner,” as well as engaging in frequent arguments with her, in which he told her he was killing her, slapped her and punched her in the face, causing bodily harm. damage to the affected areas,” the deputy said.
Among other things, the decision stated that on March 31, 2023, a woman who was in the room with the defendant “called her daughter asking for help” and told her that “the defendant wanted to kill her.” .
After his daughter entered the room, the defendant, a foreigner, pushed her “with force, causing her to fall onto the bed, breaking it,” and punched the woman in the face, killing the daughter’s nephew and allowing the victims to take refuge in another room.
In this case, there was a woman’s nephew who leaned his body against the inside door to prevent the accused from entering, who meanwhile went to get an iron and returned to the room, asking his wife and daughter to leave, “continuing to state that he was going to kill” his partner and break his daughter’s legs.
The woman contacted PSP, who sent three agents to the scene, and the accused went to the kitchen to get two knives.
Police ordered the man to come out and drop the knives, but he “not only did not comply with the order by remaining in the house, but also told officers that he would kill them if they entered,” the deputy said.
When he left the house, the defendant held “a knife in each hand” towards the officers, and one of the officers used pepper spray to subdue him.
The suspect fled home but returned a short time later and, when approached by the same officer, struck him.
The arrest of the accused was only possible due to the intervention of the PSP Rapid Response Team.
The PSP agent was taken to a hospital in Leiria and early the next morning transferred to a hospital in Coimbra, from where he was discharged on April 3.
On the 18th of the same month, the policeman was admitted to the emergency department of the Hospital Center and University of Coimbra after suffering a pulmonary infarction resulting from a “knife injury to the right great saphenous vein”, where he remained in hospital until after the 27th.
The agent whose injuries are described in the order continues to be monitored by doctors of various specialties.
The deputy argued that “the defendant knew that his behavior, the tool used and the area he struck and could reach were suitable to cause the death of the agent (…), a desire he expressed to him immediately before striking.”
According to the deputy, the detainee “struck the victim with the intent to take his life, realizing the lethality of the area in which he found himself,” believing that he also acted with the intent to harm “physical and psychological well-being,” as well as peace. intelligence, honor and dignity, personal data of his wife and daughter.
The trial in the collective court will begin on April 23.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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