Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that the judicial process in Portugal is closed.
The minister Augusto Santos Silva has reported this Thursday that Iraq withdrew its ambassador accredited in Portugal, although without the need of when.
The lawsuit involving the sons of the iraqi diplomat who assaulted a young woman from Ponte de Sor will thus proceed in Iraq, said the head of diplomacy in the Portuguese press conference.
Augusto Santos Silva considered that the solution found by the Iraq turns out to be more positive, in terms of “administration of justice”, than the alternatives: Baghdad did not withdraw the diplomatic immunity of the children of the ambassador and Portugal declare the diplomat as “persona non grata”.
“The warranty that I received from the iraqi authorities is that they intend to pursue” the judicial process and that “it is technically possible” because the “procedural safeguards that are transmitted” by Portugal will allow that Baghdad does not conduct survey from “scratch”.
“This is a possible outcome,” acknowledged the head of the diplomacy of the Portuguese, admitting that the final outcome has a negative element: “the diplomatic immunity was not raised”, and this has not allowed us to give continuity to the judicial process in Portugal.
on The positive side, said Santos Silva, “there was a time” for the parties to reach an extrajudicial settlement that the family of the teenager assaulted considered it to be a “compensation” and, also, allows the judicial process to have continuity in Iraq.
Yesterday, the Public Ministry (MP) has raised the secret justice of the process that investigates the case of aggressions of children twins of the ambassador of Iraq in Portugal, a young man of Ponte de Sor. “Considering the evidence gathered and the measures of research already carried out, we proceeded to the lifting of the secret of justice”, noted the Prosecutor General of the Republic, in a statement sent to Lusa news agency, reiterating that the inquiry, which investigates a crime of a public nature, shall continue their terms, while continuing the MP to “consider essential to the lifting of the diplomatic immunity of the children of the Ambassador of Iraq in Lisbon”.
On the same note, the OPG adds, that, following a request received on 6 January, “the Public Prosecutor has sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) a certificate of the proceedings, with the purpose of the same can be weighted in the scope of the procedure, the diplomatic that is deemed appropriate.” Of the certificate sent, according to the PGR, “stated the order issued by the Public Ministry where they are appreciated the available evidence, as well as the respective legal framework”.
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted yesterday on the need, in accordance with “additional elements”, the lifting of the diplomatic immunity of the children of the ambassador of Iraq, accused of the assault of a young woman in Ponte de Sor last summer. In a statement, the Ministry confirmed that it has received from the Attorney-General of the Republic additional elements about the process that were ordered on 6 January. “These elements confirm and reinforce the need of lifting the diplomatic immunity of the children of the Ambassador of Iraq, Gentlemen Haider Saad Ali and Rhida Saad Ali, so that this process can proceed in Portugal,” said the Ministry in a statement.
Reuters
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