The information, published by the newspaper Expresso and confirmed to Lusa by the office of the attorney general, shows one case with charges in Oeiras, two in Sintra (relating to abbreviated cases), one in the district of North Lisbon (relating to a summary case) and one in Lisbon – all without specifying which cases they refer to.
There were riots in several neighbourhoods in Greater Lisbon over several nights after the death of Moniz, 43, who had lived in the Bairro do Zambujal neighbourhood in Amadora. Moniz was shot by a PSP officer in the early hours of 21 October, in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood, also in Amadora, and died shortly afterwards.
During the riots that followed, a number of buses and dozens of cars and rubbish bins were set on fire. But the attack on a bus in Santo António de Cavaleiros (in the neighbouring municipality of Loures), which left the driver in a serious condition, was the gravest under investigation.
In police operations in the wake of the unrest, several people were arrested, with two young men aged around 18 ordered to be held in pre-trial detention in Amadora and Carnaxide (in Oeiras municipality), on suspicion of having committee property offences during the riots.
In Loures, two of the three people arrested on suspicion of causing the bus fire that left the driver with permanent injuries were remanded in custody, “charged with the offences of attempted murder, arson and damage,” according to the information published.
Evidence such as mobile phones and items of clothing that the suspects had been wearing that night was collected from the investigations carried out by the Judicial Police (PJ). The third defendant arrested was also suspected of the same offences, but the Public Prosecution Service decided to charge him only with drug trafficking, a PJ source explained at the time.
