
Four cases of alleged assaults by police officers against detainees arrived at the bar of the court, but only one within the Joana case resulted in conviction.
The first trial of inspectors happened in 2000, when the chief inspector José Abrantes and three other inspectors of PJ in Lisbon were accused of crimes of offense against the physical integrity of qualified and kidnapping of a man identified as a potential informant in the process of Gang of Passarella.
Rui Nuno Marques four accused the inspectors of the PJ to have kidnapped and transported to the premises of the Judiciary, which he said have been assaulted in order to disclose information to the investigation of the case.
The court gave as evidence the attacks on the premises of the PJ without, however, has established its authority, so José Abrantes and three other officers were acquitted.

In September 2004, after the disappearance of a child of eight years, the mother, Leonor Cipriano was questioned on the premises of the PJ of Faro, where he said the inspectors have been tortured to obtain confession of the authorship of the death of her daughter, along with brother, John Cipriano.
Five current and former inspectors of the PJ were brought to trial with jury, with the Bar Association (OA) to intervene in the proceedings for the first time in the history of Portuguese as an assistant justice charge.
Although the court in Faro has proven as the torture of Leonor Cipriano, not to prove who caused the attacks and how, so Leonel Marques, Paulo Pereira Paulo Marques Bom and Christopher were acquitted.

For its part, Gonçalo Amaral was acquitted of the crime of omission of complaint, but the panel of judges chaired by Henry Peacock condemned the ex-inspector of the PJ a year and a half in prison with suspended sentence for an equal period for the crime of false testimony.
The fifth inspector brought to trial, António Cardoso, was sentenced to two and a half years suspended sentence with a period equal to the crime of falsification of documents.
In 2007, an inspector of the PJ of Porto, Pinto Machial had to appear at the trial session, after being accused of assault during the interrogation, a man suspected of murder of women.
The PJ's agent rejected the accusations and stressed in court that the suspect, assisted in the Hospital de São João, in Porto, where he remained for 45 minutes due to a "head injury unspecified", "shot up to an inspector," by which was forced to intervene in aid of a colleague and you master it "on the floor."
The case relates Railway was also in 2007, three inspectors of the PJ to be pronounced by a man alleged assault suspected of theft, with the postponement of the first session in the Criminal Court of Lisbon.
The audience, still no date set, it is scheduled to be the same when it began the trial of current and former inspectors of the PJ within the media If Joana.
Because of the trial on the practices of torture that they complained Leonor Cipriano, mother of missing girl in the Algarve in September 2004, the Government has created a manual of conditions of detention in PJ, for the rights of detainees are respected.
Contacted by the agency Lusa, António Pragal Colaço, lawyer of ASFIC (Association of Criminal Investigation Staff of the Judicial Police), criticized the judge for justice in cases of attacks attributed to the PJ inspectors.
"The courts in Portugal should concern itself in chasing the thief and not the police", he stressed, showing "concern" and "amazement" at the fact that criminal investigators are judged by exercising acts of violence against detainees.
http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1307897

Gonçalo Amaral accused of torturing stepfather of Joan
The former coordinator of the Judicial Police (PJ) Gonçalo Amaral, now retired, was accused by prosecutors of Faro for the practice of a crime of torture in the co-authors Leandro Silva, companion of Leonor Cipriano, mother of Joan. O advogado do queixoso vai pedir uma indemnização de um milhão de euros. The lawyer will ask the complainant compensation of one million euros.
According to the indictment, which was based on documents of the Barlavento Hospital in Portimão, where he was supported (in addition to several testimonies), on 13 October of that year, Gonçalo Amaral grabbed the neck of Leandro Silva, stepfather of child missing, and you desferido "several punches in the abdomen and slap in the face" as requested to indicate where it was Joana.
After having initiated the investigation in October 2008, the prosecutor stated that he had sustained at the time, several injuries, including "the scale costal contusion," which prevented from working for five days. Based on the indictment, the former coordinator of the PJ incurs a penalty of one year to five years imprisonment. However, the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia, representative of Leandro Silva, will ask, as the DN, which is considered the existence of "serious crime of torture", in which case Gonçalo Amaral had to meet three to twelve years in prison.

It is recalled that the former coordinator of the Judiciary was sentenced, on May 22 by the Court of Faro, a year and a half, with suspended sentence for perjury during the investigation of the Joana case, which he led in for the Leonor Cipriano torture (which meets 16 years in prison for murder and concealment of the body of her daughter Joana).
The lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia will require 500 thousand euros in compensation to Gonçalo Amaral for "offenses" after the former inspector has asked the Court of Faro his internment. " The request for compensation from another is the same value to compensate the father of Joan by "torture", "defamation" and "false statements" during the investigation into the disappearance of the stepdaughter.
"I was beaten once at night in PJ by Gonçalo Amaral and others who do not remember who they are. He said I had hidden the body of Joana and the strength that I wanted to say where he was. How not know anything, I was taking hit . When I reached home, I had to go to the Barlavento Hospital in Portimão, where I was radiographed to be in pain in the body, "said the DN Leandro Silva.
http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1287422&seccao=Sul
Also see: Trial of Leonor Cipriano can be repeated
http://dontletthemhurtourchildren.blogspot.com/2009/07/trial-of-leonor-cipriano-can-be.html
Gonçalo Amaral TORN APART BY HIS LIES
http://dontletthemhurtourchildren.blogspot.com/2009/07/goncalo-amaral-torn-apart-by-his-lies.html





