Three inspectors of the Service for Foreigners and Border Guards, sentenced to nine years in prison for causing grievous bodily harm as a result of the death of Ukrainian Igor Homeniuk at Lisbon airport, were due to hear this Friday to consider the crimes. , but the appeals were denied and the verdicts remain.
The decision was made by the Supreme Court (STJ), and the Attitudes decision, issued on December 7, 2021, increased the prison sentence applied to Inspector Bruno Souza from seven to nine years and upheld the sentence of Inspectors Duarte Laja. , and Luis Silva, who had already been sentenced to nine years in the first instance.
Lawyers for Luis Silva, Duarte Laja and Bruno Sousa, who were under house arrest, asked to analyze the criteria that led to the change in the classification of crimes from murder to a crime that resulted in convictions.
Author: Miguel Curado
Source: CM Jornal
