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Maria Lúcia Amaral sets the amount to be paid to the family of the murdered citizen at the facilities of the Immigration and Borders Service at 834 thousand euros.
The Portuguese State will pay the highest compensation in history for the death of citizens in national territory, in the case of the Ukrainian who was beaten at the facilities of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) at the Lisbon airport, between 11 and on March 12 of this year. After the forest fires of 2017, the Ombudsman’s Office reached the value of 300 thousand euros, when calculating the compensation of a person to whom three family members died. Now, he has set the amount to be paid to Ihor Homenyuk’s family at 834 thousand euros.
The case is not yet closed, but the value has already been proposed to the Ukrainian’s widow. According to the “Diário de Notícias”, the Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, set the amount of compensation to be paid at 834 thousand euros, including pensions to be paid to her children, ages 9 and 14, until they reach the age adult. The source said that the victim’s father will also receive 50 thousand euros, but the Ombudsman, questioned by the JN, did not clarify whether this amount would be added to said 834 thousand euros, nor did he provide more information.
The DN also reported that the compensation was calculated both in terms of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”, as well as the “omission of care in the long period before the death” of Ihor Homenyuk and that it caused him an “intense degree of suffering”. .
After the fires of June and October 2017, in which 114 people died, a total of 31 million euros was paid in damages, already with more generous calculations than those used after the fall of the Entre-os-Ríos bridge, in 2001. At the beginning of 2018, the provider allocated 80 thousand euros for the damage due to death and 70 thousand for the damage suffered, and ordered the payment of other minor fees for material and non-material damages.
The family asked for another
Ihor Homenyuk’s family’s lawyer said Thursday that he should accept the provider’s proposal and said it would represent “slight relief” over the “concerns” of Ihor Homenyuk’s widow regarding the maintenance and education of the children.
In the criminal case in which three SEF inspectors are to be tried for the murder of Homenyuk, the same lawyer has claimed civil compensation. But, already in December, he promised JN that he would renounce that request, if the supplier calculated the state compensation in the amount of one million euros. This Thursday, questioned by JN, the lawyer did not clarify whether he would be satisfied with the 834 thousand euros.
I came to work for Portugal
Ihor Homenyuk, 40, boarded a plane in Istanbul, Turkey, and landed in Lisbon on March 10 this year. He was looking for work in Portugal, where a large number of Ukrainians live, but he never left the Lisbon airport.
Battered and left to die
The autopsy report on IhorHomenyuk’s body reveals that he was violently beaten and tied hand and foot. The police investigation, which also used video surveillance images and testimonies, indicates that the Ukrainian, after being attacked, was left tied, face down, for several hours, ending up asphyxiated.
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