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Franklim Lobo’s lawyer, considered the Portuguese “drug magnate”, resigned his mandate because he considered that the Court prevented him from defending the accused. Among other reasons, the lawyer states that he does not have “access to the mission, surveillance and reports of the PJ’s Prevention and Technical Support Unit.”
Vítor Carreto considers that “the Portuguese Criminal Procedure should or should be a way of equilibrium between the Almighty Portuguese State and the accused, a defenseless citizen, many times” kidnapped “in a dirty 5 m2 cell, cold and wet, waiting for the Public Ministry will investigate the facts and accuse … “.
The lawyer denounces “constant interruptions of the Court when the defense tried to question the witnesses and that reflect an unbalanced, unfair process, without respect for the defense statute.”
In the letter sent to the 12th Central Criminal Judge in Lisbon, Vítor Carreto accuses our country of “not respecting international treaties and directives, including the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.”
“It is not possible to exercise the defense and investigation of the total truth when the Court prevents the discovery of hidden evidence, that is,” any means “to intercept people. In Portugal, in Judge 12, there are no conditions for a fair process and Equitable The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) already recognized in case 53931/19 that the accused was a victim of torture between April 4 and July 22 of last year.
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