In a press release, the Coimbra Public Security Police (PSP) announced that the court has ordered “preventive detention, the most severe measure of restraint,” for a 30-year-old suspect who already had a “criminal record.”
For the 19-year-old suspect, the court imposed a restraining order prohibiting contact with the victims and witnesses, as well as requiring daily check-ins at the local Criminal Police Body until December 5, after which the check-ins will be reduced to three times a week.
Two men, aged 19 and 30, were arrested by the Coimbra PSP on Sunday afternoon on suspicion of kidnapping, assault, and home invasion offenses.
The arrest followed police being called to a private residence breach, assault, and kidnapping incident in the Tovim area of Coimbra.
At the scene, police encountered an injured woman who reported “having been attacked with an iron bar shortly before by two individuals.”
According to the victim, the suspects “forced their way into the residence, assaulted her, kidnapped her partner, and fled in a car.”
After an investigation, the PSP “intercepted and arrested the two suspects shortly afterward on Rua António Jardim.”
