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GNR found “evidence of a crime” in the run over that killed Hugo Ramos, a 25-year-old who was attending an illegal race at dawn on Saturday, in the EN 105-2 tunnel, next to the Vilar de aerodrome. Luz, in Maia, and the case was reported to the Public Ministry.
“Other information was collected that leads us to participate in the court,” Captain Rui Ferreira, Public Relations officer of the GNR Command, Captain Rui Ferreira, told JN, without specifying the crime reported. However, on the day of the accident, the officer clarified that the hit-and-run was only treated as “a traffic accident”, and not as a result of an event with high-speed cars that was taking place in that area, since – He said – “there was nothing to point to an illegal career.”
The airfield tunnel is, however, one of the areas mentioned by the authorities because it is a frequent stage of motor racing, which is why military personnel had already been deployed in the area, “around 9 pm” on Friday, He said. Later, Captain Rui Ferreira, referring that “the patrol left the place around midnight, to support a fact.”
Hugo Ramos was brutally run over shortly after 00:30 hours, inside the tunnel, by a white Seat Ibiza that was circulating at high speed and that projected the young man several meters out. The moment was captured by one of the several young people who witnessed the event and filmed the cars, it being evident, in the images published on social networks, that a race was taking place there, which ended up being reported to the Public Ministry ( MP).
The driver of the Seat, a 32-year-old man, “was identified at that time in the context of a traffic accident” – clarified the GNR official – and is now being charged as a result of the criminal process.
GNR guarantees that it will continue to patrol the Vilar de Luz aerodrome area, as well as others where illegal races are common. “It is one of the areas that we have referred to as problematic,” confirmed Captain Rui Ferreira, adding that “the patrol is directed according to the police information collected” on illegal acts.
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