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The 88 defendants in the Hells Angels process begin this Tuesday to be tried for attempted murder, criminal association, drug trafficking and robbery, among other crimes.
The 88 defendants in the Hells Angels process , accused of serious crimes, including criminal association, begin this Tuesday to be tried in Camarate (Loures), after the full confirmation of the accusation by the Public Ministry.
According to one of the lawyers linked to the case, Judge Carlos Alexandre, from the Central Court of Criminal Instruction (TCIC), decided to pronounce all the defendants ” in the exact terms of the indictment “, and aggravated the measure of coercion imposed on many of the defendants, placing more than 50 in obligation to remain in the home (OPH), commonly known as house arrest.
The ruling of Carlos Alexandre’s pronouncement has more than a thousand pages and in one of the passages of the order, to which Lusa had access, the TCIC judge concludes that, given the analyzed evidence, “this set of elements thus grouped is not a simple club recreational “motard” , but a group of people who organize themselves (…) in paramilitary molds or similar to the mode of action of a militia”.
The judge also considers that all elements that make up the “biker” group are “in absolute consonance, hierarchical and imbued with obedience to the statutes (of the biker club) and the obligations arising from it”, regardless of “any side where they are located ”.
This last consideration by the judge is related to the fact that one of the defendants alleges that he was in Luxembourg at the time of the criminal acts (aggression) that occurred in the Prior Velho area, in Lisbon.
In the allegations of the preliminary debate, which took place in July, the Public Ministry (MP) asked for the trial of all the defendants, arguing that they all committed the crimes listed in the indictment, which had telephone tapping, documents seized from the group as evidence. “Motard” and the testimony of witnesses and defendants.
At the time, the MP gave as proven, among other facts, the attack perpetrated by the defendants and members of the Hells Angels group at the restaurant Mesa do Prior, in Prior Velho, as well as the persecution carried out by them against Mário Machado, leader of the extreme movement. -right New Social Order and who belonged to a rival biker group.
The prosecutor then gave as proven the other crimes included in the indictment, including extortion and possession of prohibited weapons, including knuckles, clubs and extendable sticks.
The prosecution of the MP found that those members of the “motard” group Hells Angels devised a plan to annihilate a rival group, in March 2018, using physical force and various weapons to cause them serious injuries, ” if necessary to death “.
The defendants are accused of crimes such as criminal association, attempted aggravated murder aggravated by the use of a weapon, offense to physical integrity, extortion, theft, drug trafficking and possession of weapons and ammunition, among other crimes.
The trial is scheduled to start at 9:15 am in the multipurpose space in Camarate.
