Former Prime Minister José Sócrates will launch a book titled ‘Todos contra um – crónica de um processo de rutura’ on Saturday in Porto, focusing on the “Operation Marquês” case, in which he has been on trial since July 3.
Published by Âncora, the book will be presented at 4:00 p.m. at a hotel in Porto by António Campos, former Secretary of State for Agriculture and a veteran socialist.
“If the nature of the process is defined by the defendant’s attitude, then it must be recognized that the Marquês case was never one of complicity, but of rupture,” writes the former Secretary-General of the Socialist Party on the book’s back cover.
José Sócrates argues that it is “a rupture with the judicial system that promotes violence and arbitrariness.”
“Rupture with the political world that watched and consented to everything. Rupture with journalism, whose main role in this process was to normalize judicial absurdities. This book chronicles that rupture,” he maintains.
The Marquês case, in which José Sócrates is the main defendant, involves 21 individuals accused of 117 crimes including corruption, money laundering, and tax fraud.
