The prosecutor accused two murders, one of them in the attempted form, the 25-year-old who killed one cousin and injured another in May, in Lisbon. According to the prosecution, the defendant was convinced that the victims were sexually abusing his brother.
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14/11/2026
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O 25-year-old young man who last May killed one cousin and stabbed another for believing they were sexually abusing his brother in Lisbon was accused of two crimes of murder, one of which was attempted.
In a statement, released on Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Portuguese Republic of Lisbon indicated that “the prosecutor deduced charge, on November 9, against one accused by the practice of two homicide crimes, one of them in the form attempted”.
The crime occurred on May 13, 2026, when, according to the charge, “the defendant using two knives, struck the offended several blows, having the injuries inflicted caused death to one of the victims”.
“ It is also indicated that the defendant acted convinced that the victims had sexually abused their brother, who suffers from psychological illness ", adds the note.
The young man has been in protective custody since May 15.
At the time, a source of the Public Security Police (PSP) told News to the Minute that a 25-year-old had stabbed two others, aged 21 and 23, inside a dwelling in the Calçada do Tojal, in the parish of Benfica.
Both victims were referred to hospital units, but the youngest died on the way to Santa Maria Hospital.
SIC’s “Open Line” program advanced that the attacker had stabbed his cousins upon arriving home and seeing that at least one of these was trying to rape his 27-year-old brother who suffers from schizophrenia.
The crime was committed with a kitchen knife, which the alleged killer was looking for the moment he saw his brother was being subjected to sexual assault.