danger of escape increased safety

Television images leave no doubt: something strange is at the São João Novo Court, in Porto, where the Praetorian Operation Judgment is made, where the leader of the cheerleader Super Dragons and other co -religionists are being tried for aggravated coercion crimes, among others. Everything would be normal for the ‘life’ of a court, were it not for the fact that PSP has done a risk analysis of the trial and concluded that there is a danger of escape from any of the detainees, as well as public disorder inside or outside the court. Therefore, returning to the images, those who see the news of the judgment in the news services of the televisions find that security exceeds almost everything that has been seen in the city of Porto.

There are several reasons for this, one of which is the most obvious. Subintendent Dennis da Cruz, who led the investigations, received several death threats and even ran out of a car, as someone decided to make a fire with it. ‘Had’ n ‘threats of monkey -related people. ‘Let’s kill you’, ‘you’ll die’, the car burned him, he had even personal security that gave him protection a few times, ”he explains to Sol Sun-knowledge source of the process.

In response to the specificities of the place where the court is, PSP chose to put several men to civilians to nullify possible gatherings of more localist popular, and have strongly reinforced the police device, both abroad and inside the court, often the teams of the special unit nearby, for which it comes and comes.
“Sometimes it has nothing to do with the means, it has to do with the security organization methodology itself. For example, what is usually done even in risk zones is, if there is a street near the court, cut the street to traffic and a ‘siege’ is up to the court. At this moment there is a lot of personal to civil in those adjacent streets, the methodology itself changed a little, in order to perceive sometimes the moments that can originate some complicated situations. There are a set of people who like the monkey and who are the cheerleader, but then there are also a set of people who support him for barbarism. And when this is easy they started to argue and the police are very aware of such situations, sometimes improvised, because the organized are being dismantled, but those unforeseen situations, those situations that arise from time to time, sometimes from a simple café or any zone, any movement that suddenly requires a different intervention. This has been calculated too, ”says another source from the Porto command.

Fatal assembly
It all started at the FC Porto General Assembly of November 13, 2023, where the club’s statutes were discussed and where partners affected by a future candidacy by André Villas-Boas were assaulted by the Pintorian Guard of Pinto da Costa, led by Fernando Madureira, aka Macaco. As they were assisting magistrates, it became easier for PSP to investigate such aggravated coercion cases among others.
Fernando Madureira, the former Super Dragon leader, thought, according to some port police heard by our newspaper, which was still in the past: “In the past, the difficulty was so great, and these problems were so many that PSP was covering up. It was unimaginable PSP, 20 years ago, in Porto, to give personal security to an officer who was threatened by the club’s cheerleader. We had several situations where we did not realize why the police reacted in this or that way. There is a very caricatured image that appeared in the media for a few years when Pinto da Costa has been finger at a finger to an officer and the head with his head. That image eventually described the idea that people had of the relationship between the police and the FCP itself, through Pinto da Costa. It was, deep down, as if he said he was sending it all, he was the owner of that, he gave the luxury of giving an order to an officer or giving an officer to an officer. This happened a lot. That’s why this relationship between police, judiciary, the various state organizations linked to security was very biased, a little strange, in fact, ”adds another source, mocking.

It is recalled that there are 12 defendants in Operation Praetorian, who will answer for 31 crimes, mostly in co-authorship.