Preemptive arrest for man who assaulted ex-partner and took daughter

O Court of Sintra decreed pre-trial arrest to the man who, on Thursday, assaulted the former companion and boyfriend in front of a day care center, kidnapped his daughter and fled, then arrested in the municipality of Mafra.

In a statement, GNR reported that the suspect of the domestic violence crime will be awaiting trial in custody at the Caxias Prison Institution, after having been present the first judicial interrogation at the Sintra Court.

GNR’s official source told the agency Lusa that the 34-year-old man “punched his former partner and his current boyfriend on his face and neck in front of the daycare center of Gradil” in the municipality of Mafra and Lisbon district, when they were leaving a child.

The victims were transported with minor injuries to the emergency room of Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.

After the assaults, the suspect and father of the child, aged less than 2 years, will have entered the car of the former companion, where the child was, having fled in the car and came to fight against a wall in the vicinity of the establishment.

Then he ran off in his car, taking his daughter with him.

Later, he turned the child over to the care of a friend of the mother who, in turn, delivered her to the GNR Post of Livramento, in the same county.

The man continued the escape, having been pursued and intercepted by GNR on the public road in the Ericeira area, where he was arrested without offering resistance.

The action included the reinforcement of the Criminal Investigation Center of the Territorial Detachment of Mafra, the Technical Support Center and the Research and Support Center for Specific Victims of the Territorial Command of Lisbon.