The Republican National Guard (GNR) reported that they have named 14 men, aged between 21 and 34, as suspects for the “crime of dangerous driving of a road vehicle” during the early hours of this Saturday in the municipality of Matosinhos, Porto district. Two other people were arrested for driving without a legal license and falsification of technical notation.
In a statement, the authority said they carried out a “criminal investigation and road inspection police operation” as part of an “investigation into crimes of dangerous driving of road vehicles, commonly known as ‘illegal racing’, which had been ongoing for about a year and a half.”
During the operation, in which more than 200 vehicles were inspected, two people were arrested for driving without a legal license and for the crime of falsification of technical notation.
Of the vehicles inspected, 23 “were seized for alteration to characteristics, which are subject to extraordinary inspection” and 14 for “infractions related to lack of civil liability insurance, lack of mandatory periodic inspection, tires, among others.”
According to the GNR, the operation took place in Leça da Palmeira, “a location where this type of behavior has been observed and monitored, as it endangers road safety, involving the perpetrators of these practices and also the people who watch them.”
In the statement, the authority also assured that it “will continue to have as a strategic priority road prevention and the reduction of the number of victims as a result of traffic accidents.”
“The Republican National Guard is attentive to the growing phenomenon commonly known as ‘street racing’, due to the social alarm and serious consequences of these dangerous events, as well as the fact that they constitute increasingly organized criminal or misdemeanor actions,” they emphasized.
