Vila Nova de Milfontes: witnesses, young drug users, lie for fear of reprisals.
Trial of six individuals, residents in Vila Nova de Milfontes, county of Odemira, by trafficking drugs began yesterday in the Court of Beja. Prosecution witnesses, young consumers, very contradictory testimony, only explained by fear of reprisals.
Lies, with extraction certificates for false statements, refusals to testify by family connection to one of the prisoners, faltering voices for fear of reprisals and evasive answers, assumption of drug dependence with unknown purchases, language "is shovel" to the public prosecutor, of everything he saw and heard the ten witnesses in the first session of the trial of a network that controlled drug trafficking in Vila Nova de Milfontes (Odemira).
The first witnesses, nickname “Top”, with removal of requirement of all hearing room defendants, whose examination under investigation was presided over by a magistrate, changed the same testimony and when confronted with the statements made by him and signed told the judge that “nessa altura menti à GNR”. As it is not accused in the process, what I could have paid remand, the Prosecutor of the Ministry left you have to draw a certificate to investigate the crime of false witnesses.
Dubbed between the authorities as "Milfontes Connection", the group went on trial before the Court of Beja, It consists of six elements, four of whom are in custody, aged between 21 and 39 year old, He was arrested in February of this year.
The defendants are all resident in Vila Nova de Milfontes, and they are accused of drug trafficking crime, there three who also held banned weapons.
Billed as "ringleader" of the group, Ukrainian citizen, with Portuguese nationality, Maksym Rarenko, He is charged with two crimes of drug trafficking, prohibited weapon detention, I recetação, theft and extortion.
Three of the six defendants reverted to the silence and who spoke tried not to incriminate any of them, justifying that the business cited in the indictment, They resulted in the "need for money" for its facilities. One of the defendants apologized to the Group of Judges who smoked "twenty joints a day".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
