Twins case? “It’s about justice doing its job,” says Carneiro

“The's got justice doing his job. We have to trust justice and wait for its time,” said José Luís Carneiro to journalists on the margins of a visit in Benfica, Lisbon, when asked about the prosecutor’s charge known the day before.

Asked if, like the parliamentary leader of the PS, Eurico Brilhante Dias, believed in the innocence of António Lacerda Sales, former secretary of the State of Health of the PS governments, the leader of the PS only replied: “I believe in the work that justice will do and, if justice does work, surely there will be a trial stage to evaluate the facts and the terms in which they were practiced”.

As to whether the possibility of the ER being pinched by this prosecution, Carneiro refused this idea.

“ Of course not. In what terms does the Socialist Party get pinched?” he replied, returning the question.

From the perspective of the leader of the PS this is a case that has “the involvement of various personalities, from different political and party quadrants”.

“ It is not a party issue, that is what seems evident to everyone ", defended.

The parliamentary leader of the PS said on Monday to have the conviction that the former Secretary of State for Socialist Health António Lacerda Sales is innocent in the case of twins, in which he was accused by the Public Prosecutor of prevarication.

“ I naturally hope that you are entitled to your presumption of innocence, that you defend yourself in court and, of course, we would all like your defense in court to come to the conclusion that you are innocent, which is the conviction I have,” he said, after being questioned about the charge against Lacerda Sales in the case of administering the medicine Zolgensma to two Portuguese-Brazilian twins.

The former Secretary of State for Health, the son of the former President of the Republic, the former clinical director of Hospital Santa Maria and the mother of Portuguese-Brazilian twins are the four accused by the Public Prosecutor in the case of the administration of the medicine Zolgensma.

According to the charge to which Lusa had access, of 100 pages, António Lacerda Sales, Nuno Rebelo de Sousa and Luís Pinheiro practiced a crime of prevarication in apparent contest with the crime of abuse of powers and Daniela Martins was charged with the crime of qualified fraud.

In relation to António Lacerda Sales, the Public Prosecutor believes that the former Secretary of State for Health knew that, by forwarding Nuno Rebelo de Sousa's emails to Luís Pinheiro, then clinical director of Santa Maria Hospital, he was influencing his decision, since they were concerned communications from the son of the President of the Republic.