Public Prosecution Service deduces five accusations about riots after Odair Moniz’s death

The Public Prosecution Service has so far deduced five accusations in proceedings related to riots in Greater Lisbon who followed the death of Odair Moniz, shot by a PSP agent.

The information, advanced on Tuesday by the Expresso Journal confirmed by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to the Lusa Agency, reports a lawsuit in Oeiras, two in Sintra (relating to abbreviated processes), one in the District of Lisbon North (relative to a very summary process) and one in Lisbon.

The information does not need to which cases refer to the processes.

For several nights, riots were registered in several neighborhoods of Greater Lisbon after the death of Odair Moniz. The 43-year-old Cape Verdean and resident in the Zambujal neighborhood of Amadora was shot by police at dawn on October 21, in the Cova da Moura neighborhood in the same county and died shortly thereafter.

During the riots, more buses, dozens of cars and waste containers were set on fire. But the attack on a bus, burned down in Santo António de Cavaleiros (Loures), who left the driver in danger of life, was the most serious in investigation.

In subsequent police operations several people were arrested, having been in preventive arrest two young people of about 18 years detained in Amadora and Carnaxide (Oeiras), accused of crimes against property committed during the riots.

In Loures, two of the three arrested on suspicion of provoking the fire in the bus that left permanent sequelae in the driver were in custody, « indicted for the crimes of qualified homicide in tempted form, fire and damage. »