Five prisonerswho were serving prison sentences of seven to 25 years, They fled with “foreign help” from the Portuguese prison of Vale de Judeuslocated about 70 kilometers north of Lisbon, this Saturday.
The General Directorate of Reintegration and Penitentiary Services (DGRSP) explained in a statement that they had recorded their disappearance on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. local time and that, by analyzing the security cameras, they confirmed that they had escaped from the center, located in Alcoentre (a district of Lisbon) “with external help.” by throwing a ladder, This allowed prisoners to climb the wall and gain access to the outside.
On the other hand, the national director of the Judicial Police (PJ) of Portugal, Luis Neves, said at a press conference that the five men who escaped from prison on Saturday are “very violent people, with enormous mobility.”
“We are talking about very violent people, with an enormous capacity for mobility. These people will do anything to stay free and when I say anything, that includes the value of human life.”he said.
Neves assures that an investigation is already underway, still without identifying anyone, and asks that “no one expects immediate results.” In addition, he added that “all aspects of the escape have been prepared down to the smallest detail.” “It is a complex investigation. We are talking about an organized crime, with great financial capacity. These are very well prepared people,” he said.
The Director General of Reintegration and Penitentiary Services, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, also reported the moment of the escape, aided by the videos from the security cameras. Thanks to this, it was established that the escape of the five men began at 9:56 a.m. and was reported to the judicial police 40 minutes later.
The escapees are two Portuguese citizens, Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira and Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro, a Georgian citizen, Shergili Farjiani, an Argentinian, Rodolf José Lohrmann, and a British, Mark Cameron Roscaleer, aged between 33 and 61 years old. .
They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven to 25 years for various crimes.including drug trafficking, criminal conspiracy, theft, kidnapping and money laundering.
