Five of the seven soldiers of the Republican National Guard who attacked immigrants in Odemira suspended. The remaining two should be in the coming days.
Five of the seven GNR soldiers accused of assaults, mistreatment and kidnapping of immigrants in Vila Nova de Milfontes, county of Odemira, were preventively suspended by 90 days by the Minister of Internal Administration and Justice, Francisca Van Dunem, revealed today some media.
the remaining two, according to the same television channel, should be in the next few days. The only reason they haven't been so far is because the services were unable to notify them and the disciplinary process was delayed.
Remember that these seven GNR soldiers are accused of 33 crimes for allegedly humiliating and torturing immigrants in Odemira, three of these elements of the GNR are repeat offenders and had already been sentenced to suspended sentences for aggressions against immigrants in 2018.
As the Lidador News (LN) in September 2020, the investigation originated in 2019, when the Judiciary Police seized the mobile phones of five soldiers suspected of mistreatment of immigrants in Odemira, having found videos and images that gave rise to this new process.
at trial, whose sentence was read in July 2020, in addition to these three elements of the GNR, two other soldiers were also convicted., with one of them serving a sentence of six years.
The IGAI states that the disciplinary proceedings opened to the five soldiers sentenced in court had as sanctioning measures the penalty of dismissal from the GNR for one of them and the other penalties of suspension and accessory penalties of compulsory transfer.
Fonte da GNR disse, that last december, that five of the seven soldiers accused were working normally., with two of the repeat offenders being suspended.
The soldier accused in the previous case is still in office because the suspension of functions is being discussed in the Administrative Court, according to the lawyer.
The majority of 33 crimes the military is accused of, in other words, 28, will have been committed in material co-authorship, the remaining five were allegedly practiced in material authorship.
The Public Ministry considers that all soldiers involved in the process acted for “awkward whims”, with “contempt” and “in manifest hatred” for the nationalities of the victims of the Indonesia region.
