O PSP agent Carlos Canha handcuffed and beat two witnesses at a police station in Amadora without being threatened. According to the Sintra Court, the policeman punched Quintino G. who a few hours before had witnessed the heated argument between Cláudia Simões and a Vimeca driver that would give rise to the controversial arrest of the cook at the bus stop on the night of January 19, 2020. The police officer attacked Quintino G., according to the ruling, “relaxing from the attack of which he found himself the victim because he was a police officer†, upon seeing this witness and associating him , “also unacceptably, at that event, impulsively, he punched him†.
