According to information published on the official website, the MP filed charges on Wednesday against seven defendants, one of whom was a repeat offender, for committing, in co-authorship, five crimes of qualified homicide, in the attempted manner.
The Sporting fans, five of whom are in pre-trial detention and two subject to house arrest with an electronic bracelet, are also accused of 10 crimes of qualified physical harm, one crime of fire, five crimes of robbery (one qualified and completed and four attempted) and three crimes of qualified damage.
The investigation by the Lisbon DIAP, in assistance of the Judiciary Police, is based on events that occurred on June 10, at Lumiar, in Lisbon, where five FC Porto fans were attacked and suffered burns, requiring hospital treatment, after the fifth game of the National roller hockey semi-finals of the 2024/25 season.
The Public Ministry (MP) charged seven Sporting fans with attempted murder of five FC Porto supporters, among other crimes, after a roller hockey game between the two clubs, the constitutional body announced.
According to the prosecution, the defendants “acted as a group, as part of a plan that aimed to set fire to the vehicles in which members of the rival club were traveling – which they managed to achieve in relation to one of the vehicles -, with the occupants inside, not allowing them to leave, throwing blows and blows, stoning the victims and cars, and appropriating valuable objects that they had in their possession”.
Shortly after the conclusion of the match, which FC Porto won on penalties, ensuring qualification for the championship final, the Porto club promised to go “to the last consequences to ensure that this case does not pass without severe and exemplary punishment for the criminals involved in it”.
FC Porto, which later reclaimed its national champion title by prevailing against Óquei de Barcelos in the final, condemned the “very serious events that occurred in Lisbon” and reported having reported that “barbaric attack” to the Authority for the Prevention and Combat of Violence in Sports and the Portuguese Skating Federation.
Sporting and the federative body also vehemently repudiated the attacks on the ‘dragons’ fans, with the Lisbon club pointing out that “it does not accept this behavior, which goes against the club’s values and disrespects the spirit of sport”.
The Alvalade emblem indicated that it would collaborate “actively with the authorities in determining responsibilities” and would take “all necessary measures to identify those responsible”
