Taking advantage of the dark of night and the limited movement of cars or people in the area, because it's sunday, an individual climbed onto the roof of Intermarche de Beja, pierced the cover of it, dismantled the false ceiling of a tobacconist, having entered its interior, where did you steal money from?, slushies and tobacco, not the total value of 20.110 euros.
In addition to being responsible for the crime of qualified theft, practiced at night 26 June 2022, according to the indictment order of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) Beja that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, Rui Jorge Rodrigues, of 54 year old, resident in the Horta Nova neighborhood, in Carnide, in the municipality of Lisbon, is also charged with four counts of aggravated menacing.
Arrested on the night of 1 April 2023, by PSP agents from the 36th Police Station in Bairro Padre Cruz, in Pontinha, in Lisbon, in the execution of an arrest warrant, Inside the police station, the accused made several threats to four police officers, intimidating people who killed them and blew up the building.
The theft inside the commercial area took place on the night of 26 June 2022, cerca the 22,30 hours, hour and a half after it closed to the public, and according to the indictment, making use of a rope with 12,50 meters and 25 we, a pruning shear, a pair of pressure pliers and an iron cutting saw blade, cut the roof and dismantled the roof of the tobacconist.
From inside the space, the perpetrator of the theft took two lots of scratch cards worth 8.000 euros, tobacco and rolling papers, no value 6.110 euros and 6.000 euros in cash that the owner of the establishment had left in the cash register to deposit the following day.
Although the MP does not specify how the defendant acted, LN found that at the time, agents from the Beja PSP Criminal Investigation Squadron reconstructed the crime after seeing the images from the cameras in the surrounding buildings.. The man left the car about 500 metros do local, went behind the walls of the commercial surface, up to go up and then down from the roof, without trace. Rui Jorge Rodrigues was identified for having acted with a clean face.
Because work was taking place at the hypermarket, the police formulated the conviction that the individual may have been working locally or had an accomplice who “made his map” of the space. This belief by the agents was based on their knowledge of the steps the defendant took on the roof., the place where the tobacconist was located and the roof of the same, and his movements within the place where he committed the theft, as they were not detected by the film cameras, which resulted in the alarm not going off.
The MP promotes in the indictment that the case of Rui Jorge Rodrigues, be ordered to pay the State, with executive force, the amount of 20.110 euros, for an advantage obtained through the commission of the crime. The trial will take place at the Beja Court before a single court.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
