9 years prison for SEF officers

The Lisbon Court of Appeal has today sentenced the three SEF inspectors involved in the death of Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homeniuk to nine years in prison.

By TPN/Lusa, in Portugal, Crime · 07 Dec 2021, 15:01 · 1 Comments

This decision of the Appeal court has upheld the sentence of inspectors Duarte Laja and Luís Silva and increased the prison sentence applied to inspector Bruno Sousa.

In the reading of the first instance judgment, handed down on May 10 by the presiding judge Rui Coelho, the defendants Duarte Laja and Luís Silva had been sentenced to nine years in prison, while the defendant Bruno Sousa received a sentence of seven years in prison for the crime of qualified serious offense to physical integrity.

Contacted by Lusa, the lawyer for the Ukrainian citizen's family who died in March 2020 at Humberto Delgado airport, in Lisbon, José Gaspar Schwalbach considered it "positive that the Lisbon Court has equated responsibility to all the defendants", applying to the three former officers the same length of sentence (nine years).

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Comments

And what will happen to Mr. Eduardo Cabrita, the Minister of Internal Administration, responsible at the time for the SEF (Portuguese Border Service)? The manager directly responsible for those services resigned right away in early 2020 and the officers, who beat the unfortunate Ukrainian immigrant Ihor Homenyuk to death, got recently nine years in prison. However, the Minister ultimately responsible for those poorly managed services and, apparently, involved in other very serious and still unresolved issues is walking free and enjoying his recent resignation certainly with a lavish retirement pension! It is sad, but apparently that's life in Portugal for unaccountable and powerful politicians!

By Tony Fernandes from Other on 10 Dec 2021, 00:55