PSP agent creates crowdfunding for court costs

Last month, the Lisbon Court of Appeal reversed the previous decision of the Sintra Court – taken in July 2024 -, condemning the PSP agent Carlos Canha to a suspended sentence of five years in prison for the crime of offenses to qualified physical integrity to Claudia Simões.

Now, Carlos Canha says he needs the help of « All good citizens, whereby, in the order and security of all of us, has this problem »in the court costs. The PSP member created a crowdfunding to get the value of 24 thousand euros. “My daughter and another group of colleagues saw me do the math and took this initiative. Let’s say it was a civic movement »says to Sunriseadmitting to being «Studied» with the turn in the decision. «I am very disappointed. I have read the judgment and do not understand. How were 146 points completely reversed? I have been a police for 26 years, another five years of Marines, I am 49 years old, I am an exemplary father and this situation fought with Mrs. Claudia at the scene of the incident. I think there is also a lot of politics involved here.believe.

« This process began in 2020, I had in the first instance favorable and, to the amazement of all, in the Court of Appeal, were all facts, which proved my innocence, inverted. »reads a message that circulates between the members of the authorities. «That is, I am given as guilty. Resulting in a total compensation of 24 thousand euros. Obviously I will turn to the Supreme, with high and obviously costs of defense representation.adds. It is recalled that in the past it had been acquitted, having only been convicted by the Sintra court for the aggressions in the squad to two men who were arrested that same night following the events. With the new decision, according to the PSP agent himself, he will have to pay 12,000 euros to the state and compensation of six thousand euros to Claudia Simões, within two years and six months. You will still have to pay 3,000 euros to each of the men who assaulted that same night. «After three years they remembered to come to say that I assaulted them»regrets. «We are resorting not to pay this amount!»reinforce.

The case goes back to January 2020, in a bus stop in Amadora.