The Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating reports of attacks by students in their final year at Colégio Militar against younger classmates, which allegedly occurred last January. The news was released this Friday by the Observer and confirmed by PÚBLICO with the Attorney General’s Office, which states the following in a written response: “The complaints received gave rise to two investigations, and one of the investigations was subsequently incorporated into the other, which is currently under investigation at DIAP [Departamento de Investigação e Acção Penal] from Lisbon.”
According to the same newspaper, the Military Judiciary Police confirmed that the issue involved possible “crimes of harm to physical integrity”. Some of the students may have needed medical care and one of the “graduates” was suspended.
The attacks were allegedly inflicted on students in the 9th year of schooling at the Colégio Militar by “graduates” of that institution, that is, by students in the 12th year (and some in the 11th) in a kind of “practice”. ” when the youngest were sleeping (the episode would have occurred in the early hours of the morning).
According to ObserverWhat a date “source knowledgeable about the case”, the minor victims of the aggression they will have been subjected to forced physical exercise for “two hours”.
“They spent two hours crawling, filling up, doing Italian [em posição de prancha, na horizontal e apenas com os cotovelos apoiados no chão]as if they were undergoing military instruction”, says a person in charge of educating students at the institution to the newspaper. The information collected by Observer together d