Contradictions in the testimonies of women wounded by police shootings in Cova da Moura

Two women testified on Tuesday in court that they had been hit by police gunfire in Cova da Moura, Amadora, in February 2015, but their testimony was contradictory to other facts .

None of the 17 police officers from the Alfragide police station who are being tried at the Sintra Court for racist attacks and insults against young women in Cova da Moura has questioned the fact that the two women from Cova da Moura but the description of the circumstances in which the events unfolded led the two offenders to contradict each other and to present different versions of the film of the police operation.

One of the offenders, Jailsa Sousa, said that only one policeman had a shotgun and fired three shots, two of which hit him, while the other one was shot. another, Neuza Correia, testified that the policemen with hunting rifles and two others, located next to the Moinho da Juventude association, were also armed with a rifle, and these were responsible for the shoot.

Jaussa Sousa asserted that it was a single policeman who was firing the three shots The chest and leg and Neuza Correia in the nose area, but the latter offended said that it would have been two police officers to fire with the rifle and that the second shot was the one that hit him in the nose and not the one who reached Jailsa Sousa's leg. Jailsa Sousa, who was on the porch of his house, assured that the first two shots were fired against him, a version that does not coincide with that of Neuza Correia, who speaks all of a sudden in l & rsquo; Air, and Jailsa (19659002) The two witnesses, who are at the same time offended by the injuries that they suffered, coincide in the version that the police assaulted the young man Bruno (better known by the name from "Timor"), but one of them said that the young man had his hands stuck to the wall and the other said that the young man was handcuffed. None of the witnesses saw blood on Timor's face or body, nor was he caught inside a police van.

Inconsistencies in the details of police action and also the discrepancies between what was stated by the offended in a lawsuit and what they said during the investigation phase, the Police lawyers have asked the court to extract a certificate against both witnesses for possible criminal prosecution for false statements.

The chairman of the panel of judges, Ester Pacheco, also expressed surprise that Jailsa Sousa, after being hit by rubber bullets in her chest and leg and panicked, shouted that she was going to die , had, after all, the cold blood necessary to reach the street, ask a person who did not know how to take the car from the place, in order to be able to recover the cartridge left by the police.

First hit in the chest, offended he notices that he was still able to notice that the policeman was squatting, with every shot, in the concern of picking up the cartridges. The judge was also surprised that the offended woman, although injured in the chest and leg, did not immediately call the 112 and had the lucidity to worry about finding a cartridge that was not safe. She believed that she had seen falling under a parked car [19659002Difficultiestoidentifyallthecolorsofthepolicevanthatwerebeingprotectedbythepolicewhowerebeingheldaspoliceofficerstodaywereaccusedofslanderousdenunciationinsultphysicaloffenseandfalsetestimonyaswellasaccusationsagainstthepoliceofficersinuniform

torture and other cruel, degrading or inhumane treatment, abduction of children and omissions of assistance.
The defendants deny the crimes attributed to him in the prosecution and they face a civil claim for compensation of six young people from the cave

According to the act of charges, the elements of the PSP, at the time of the facts (February 5, 2015) to serve the police station of intervention and surveillance of Amadora, beat, offended their physical integrity and treated the six victims in a humiliating, humiliating and degrading manner, and incited discrimination, hatred and violence because of race. An officer responsible for the use of the rifle also denied the charges, refusing that the cartridges that appear in the case and that would have injured a resident of Cova da Moura be those used by this police team.