FC Porto filed a complaint against Fernando Madureira, former leader of the Super Dragões fans, for having entered the club store at Estádio do Dragão, thus violating the coercive measures decreed by the court.
Fonte dos Dragões told Lusa that Fernando Madureira entered the commercial space adjacent to the stadium at 12:05 pm on February 11, five days after his release after serving two years of pre-trial detention, the Portuguese legal limit.
The former cheerleader would have spent five minutes inside Loja Azul and another 10 minutes in the vicinity of the sports square, having the FC Porto attached video surveillance images to the application to prove it.
In addition to having to report to the police authorities twice a week, is prohibited from “attending sports venues or any events related to FC Porto”what prompted the club’s request to the court to reconsider its situation.
The Porto Court of Justice reduced Fernando Madureira’s sentence to three years and four months, a reduction of five months in relation to the decision in the first instance, by eliminating one of the crimes of bodily harm previously considered proven, after analyzing the appeal filed by the defendants of Operation Praetorian, convicted on July 31 last year.
As he has already served two years in pre-trial detention, he has 70 days left to reach two thirds of the sentence of three years and four months and, therefore, be able to be released, and it is possible that he will only have to serve this period in prison.
In the process that became known as Operation Praetorian, the group of judges from the Criminal Court of São João Novo, in Porto, proved the existence of a “criminal plan” to “create a climate of intimidation and fear” in a General Assembly of FC Porto, in which clashes and attacks occurred, to guarantee the approval of the proposal to change the club’s statutes, in the “interest of the management” then led by Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
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