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The suspect of having been stabbed to death during a robbery in Lisbon at the end of 2019, a recently graduated engineer, son of a former inspector of the Judicial Police (PJ), admitted this Thursday in court that he heard Pedro Fonseca, 24 years, asking for help on the ground, but chose not to assist: “I was scared and had to leave.”
The case dates back to December 28, 2019. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP), it was 11:15 p.m. when SB and two friends, aged 16 and 20, approached the victim near the City Museum, in Campo Grande, Lisbon. and pushed her against a wall to store her belongings. At that moment, he was shown a kitchen knife that SB, then 17, carried inside the “inside lining” of his coat.
Despite the threat, Pedro Fonseca refused to do so. The trio then kicked and hit the former PC’s son across the body. Then, SB will have taken up the knife, with a blade 15 cm long, and stabbed the young man three times: once in the chest, once in the lumbar region and once in the side, always on the left side.
The death of the computer engineer was declared on the spot shortly after. The three suspects were finally arrested on January 6, 2020. Since then they have been in preventive detention, in a juvenile prison.
The trial, for a crime of homicide and, among others, 12 robbery, began in early November, at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon. A fourth defendant sits on the dock, upon receiving it.
Denies hitting the victim on purpose
This Thursday, the alleged perpetrator of the stabbing confessed, in court, to the murder, but with different contours from those described by the MP. Despite confirming that he showed Pedro Fonseca the knife to convince him to hand over his cell phone, SB denies that he beat the victim on purpose.
“I showed [a faca] to intimidate you. He thought he was going to hurt him and began to react. He just wasn’t intimidated and hit me and the knife went through him. […] I thought I was going to come back, “the accused described, without being able to explain when they gave him the next two stabs. The second was” during the fight, “the third, I don’t remember.
Then they will both have fallen. Pedro Fonseca still managed to get up, but after “six, seven steps,” he “fell forward.” “The boy is not well,” said one of the friends. SB saw the ex-PJ’s son bleed, heard him ask for help and ended up running away doing nothing. The alleged accomplices remained at the scene.
At home, he washed the murder weapon with bleach, “so that no one at home would realize it was being used for nothing.” Asked by the court why he was carrying a kitchen knife in his coat, he explained that he was afraid of being attacked by a member of a rival Talaide group, in Greater Lisbon.
Two months of robberies
In a statement that is not always audible, SB also confessed to his involvement in five other robberies, in which he also involved the other defendants. However, he denied being the author of five others. The crimes took place in various places in the municipalities of Lisbon, Sintra and Oeiras.
The young man still caused some perplexity in court by admitting or rejecting his participation in the robbery only because of the number of the respective investigations and not because of the days and places in which they were carried out. The references had been written down on a piece of paper I had with me.
According to the MP, the trio will have carried out the first assault on October 19, 2019 and the last on December 28, 2019, the date of the murder of Pedro Fonseca. That same day, at 8:40 p.m., a cell phone belonging to another victim, near Campo Grande, was stolen.
The testimony of SB, the first defendant to speak, continues on December 3 at the Central Criminal Court in Lisbon.
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