Sunday 28 April 2019

Shortened processes


We don’t think UK readers, can understand the Portuguese judicial system because it’s so different from the British one. Adversarial system of UK v Inquisitorial of Portugal.

For example, saying that British “heard under caution” equates to the Portuguese arguido shows that  inability to understand the system.

Please don’t confuse not understanding with spouting absurdities. The Frog saying that Portugal has a “law only allowing suspects in MBM crime to have to provide DNA samples”, is just... ridiculous.

Bringing over to the blog a tweet thread that we consider very important on the subject of the deal Kate says, in her book that she was offered via her lawyer:

Saturday 13 April 2019

Rua Segura - April 9/10/11 2019


One could say that CMTV in Portugal has, paraphrasing Joe Moura, a pattern, a habit for its nightly programming.

This, shall we call it, routine starts with a panel of sport-commentators which may vary in the name of the show but basically it’s the always the same formula: one or 2 commentators to the right of the host, another one or 2 to his left and debate endlessly about the 3 major football clubs of the country: Benfica, Porto and Sporting.

This is followed by a program with a somewhat similar format about criminal topics. This program is called  ‘Rua Segura’.

Thursday 11 April 2019

The Great American Spy


Fascinating the double standards that people who are on the internet about the Maddie case have.

If we say that the Tapas staff lied about the T9 and their alleged presence in the esplanade during that fateful week of 2007, we are mercilessly accused of maligning those poor people who already have had to bear the burden of being unlucky of ever having crossed paths with the T9 which caused some of them to have lost their jobs.