Fernando Madureira, former leader of the Super Dragões fans, and his wife Sandra Madureira, will be interviewed on Friday morning, within Operation Praetorian. It was the defendants’ defense that requested the opening of the case because they did not agree with the Public Prosecutor’s accusations.
Remembering that the Public Ministry (MP) is accusing Fernando Madureira, former leader of the Super Dragões, Sandra Madureira, Vítor Catão and the other nine accused of Operation Praetorian of various crimes.
Fernando Madureira, former FC Porto Super Dragões fan leader who is in pre-trial detention, Sandra Madureira and Vítor Catão, but also the other defendants, including Hugo ‘Polaco’ and Fernando Saúl, are accused of seven crimes of offense to physical integrity in the context of a sporting spectacle, 19 of coercion and aggravated threat, one of public instigation of a crime, one of throwing objects or liquid products and three of attacks on freedom of information. The accused Hugo Loureiro is also accused of possession of a prohibited weapon.
In the order, the MP requests additional penalties of banning entry to sports venues for between one and five years.
FC Porto and the SAD of the ‘blue and white’ club became assistants to the process, which began on January 31st, taking into account the attempt by the Super Dragões fans to “create a climate of intimidation and fear” at the FC AG. Porto, on November 13, 2023, in which there were incidents, in order for the statutory review to be approved, “in the interest of the current “blue and white” management, then led by Pinto da Costa.
That day, the Public Security Police (PSP) detained 12 people – including two FC Porto employees and the now former leader of Super Dragões, Fernando Madureira – as part of the investigation into the incidents that occurred at the club’s aforementioned AG.
At issue were the crimes of harm to physical integrity in the context of a sporting spectacle or event related to the sporting phenomenon, coercion and aggravated threat, public instigation of a crime, throwing of objects or liquid products and also an attack on freedom of information, of who are now accused by the MP.
