Eleven detained for the practice of various violent crimes, It is the result of the “Operation Pelourinho” carried out on Tuesday afternoon, Police officers from the Criminal Investigation (EIC) PSP Beja, that culminates more than a year of a long research.
Among the detainees are four young people who make up a violent group of Beja, self -adenominated tchubas composed of a dozen and a half of elements, who already has eight of its members to serve effective arrest or are in preventive, in the overwhelming majority of cases, for attempted murder with white weapons.
The suspects, 7 men and 4 women, aged between 17 and 44 year old, Ten Portuguese and a Brazilian, They were held outside of flagrante delicto, and are suspected of committing crimes such as trafficking in dirty, theft, Burla and offense to physical integrity.
The arrests occurred in various locations in the city, the most relevant being the Praça da República where there is a historical monument of the city, called pelourinho, that named the operation. EIC agents complied with 11 detention warrants out of flagrant offense, whose first target was eight home searches.
The operation was also attended by agents from the Special Police Unit (UEP), through the intervention body and Cinotechnical Operational Group of Cascais and Abrantes and elements of all subunits of the Beja District Command, in total 80 operational.
Tchubas, A very violent group
The leader, Nancanique salumé, of 22 year old, He was sentenced by the Court of Beja, in legal cumulus to 9 years in prison, for the crimes of qualified homicide in the attempted form and trafficking of smaller sourced.
In pre-trial detention at the Leiria-Jovens Prison since 7 July 2023, The individual was sentenced in May last year to 8 years in prison for trying to kill a man who "considered it to be an element of a police organ".
By final and unappealable ruling in 18 December 2023, when he was already in pre-trial detention, was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, suspended on execution, for committing a minor drug trafficking crime.
Last day 7 February was present to a collective of Judges of the Court of Beja for the realization of the legal cumulus of the two partial penalties, having been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
