Odair Moniz, Caboverdiano, 43, died in the early hours Its erratic driving. After completing part of his investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office has accused of homicide to the Public Security Police (PSP) agent who shot Moniz, stressed that he did not do everything in his hand for “preserving human life” and He has requested that, in addition to a criminal sentence for this, he will be expelled from the body. The policeman is suspended from his functions.
The Public Prosecutor’s investigation dismantles the initial version of the PSP, which attributed the shooting to a defensive response of the agent after Odair Moniz Blandiese a white weapon. The shots occurred after the Caboverdiano punch the agent and resisted his arrest, once he got out of the car as the two police officers who had persecuted him demanded. That night Odair Moniz, who lived in the Zambujal neighborhood, had taken cannabis and drunk in quantities superior to those legally allowed to drive, the autopsy later revealed. The knife, located a certain distance, lacked sufficient biological remains to provide information about its owner.
The inaccuracies that the prosecutor has found in the press release initially released by the PSP address have led to the opening of an independent investigation, which aims to settle if the chiefs of the police force committed any irregularity in the elaboration of the attesting of the event. That document, signed by the accused police, was prepared while the agent was interrogated by the Judicial Police, which calls into question the authorship.
According to the prosecutor’s story, published in Expressothe victim and the two agents who initially highly struggle. Moniz tries to prevent him from putting the wives and kicks one of the police, who hits him with a cane. One of the agents makes several air shots, which alert some neighbors who attend the scene. One of the police, after receiving a punch from Odair Moniz, shoots him in the thorax. Seeing it standing, it makes a second shot towards the genital area, which causes the Cape Verdean. Seriously injured on the ground, receives a blow with cane from the other agent.
The prosecutor who has investigated the case concludes that the policeman who shot “did not strive to minimize the injuries” and either “did everything within his reach to preserve human life.” The death of the Caboverdiano caused disturbances around Lisbon for several days. In these protests numerous cars and buses fired fires. Tiago Cascais, driver of one of them, spent a month in the hospital after suffering seriously injured by the Molotov cocktails thrown into his bus in Loures during the acts of vandalism.
The death of Odair Moniz also caused peaceful acts of repulsa, as a great demonstration held in Lisbon by the fair life movement, which demanded “justice” for the case and denounced the impunity of the police action against immigrants.