The two individuals who were detained in the border town of Pomarão, municipality of Mértola, after going to walk the border with Spain, in possession of two kilograms of hashish, start this tuesday, on trial before the Court of Beja.
They are accused of committing in material co-authorship of a crime of drug trafficking. In addition to the hash that you could almost 5.700 individual doses, other assets were also seized., namely, an automotive vehicle, 400 Euro in cash and three mobile phones.
Defendants, of 31 and 39 year old, residents in olhão, They made about 150 kilometers to elude authorities, but they were arrested in the act by the GNR military, when they returned to the car left the country.
A surveillance and control action in the old mining port of Pomarão, the military realized a parked car that raised suspicions. Made investigations operational criminal investigation GNR ascertained that individuals had crossed the border the border on foot to Spanish territory. Through the vehicle registration, the authorities realized that its owner already had a criminal record for theft and offenses to physical integrity, having subsequently proved that his "traveling companion" was also registered for the same type of crimes.
On the afternoon of 3 April last year, just over two weeks after the closing of the land borders between the two countries, the suspects crossed the border on foot via the Lower Guadiana International Bridge that links Pomarão to El Granado, which was blocked, for being one of nine border crossing points for Spain, unauthorized.
On arrest, the first carried out in Portugal for drug trafficking after the closing of borders, the defendants were presented for the first judicial interrogation to a judge on duty at the Court of Serpa, having been at liberty subject to term of identity and residence.
According to the charge order that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, the two individuals were free, because "the requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office was exceptionally dismissed", given the capacity of the chains and the possible spread of covid-19.
The border of the Pomarão, served by the Lower Guadiana International Bridge, is one of the "traffic routes", of those who go to Huelva and Seville to buy narcotics and then sell them in Portugal.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
