The court imposed preventive arrest on the suspect of the crimes of rape and theft of a pilgrim from the Way of Santiago, in August, in the municipality of Vila do Conde, informed judicial source.
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26/10/2026
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O court today applied preventive arrest as a measure of coercion to the suspect of the crimes of rape and theft of a pilgrim of the Way of Santiago, in August, in the municipality of Vila do Conde, informed judicial source.
On Saturday, the Judicial Police announced that they had identified and detained, “out of flagrant offense, the presumed perpetrator of a crime of rape and a crime of theft, which occurred in August” in the municipality of Vila do Conde, Porto district.
“ The victim is a 39-year-old foreign citizen, pilgrim of the Way of Santiago de Compostela, approached by the author during the course and subject to the practice of prominent sexual acts, through the use of physical violence, and was also stripped of goods he carried in his possession ", describes the statement of the PJ.
According to PJ, the defendant is “unknown to the victim” and “acted by surprise, taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of the offended, the knowledge of the surrounding physical zone and demonstrating a compulsive behavior driven by their sexual satisfaction”.
The crime dates back to August this year, when the victim denounced to the police authorities, who began, “immediately, gathering of evidence that culminated with the identification, location and detention of the defendant”.
The suspect, a 59-year-old unemployed man, has a “wide criminal record for the practice of crimes of diverse nature, including the repeated practice of crimes against sexual freedom”.
According to PJ, “at the time of the facts he was on probation after the execution of an effective prison sentence of 21 years”.
The man was present today to the judicial authorities competent for submission to the first judicial interrogation at the Criminal Instruction Court (ICT) of Matosinhos, also in the district of Porto.