A 38 year old man drove his car through a cafe window earlier this week, as revenge for being refused a beer by the cafe staff member. See video HERE.
The vehicle crashed through the front of the Tasca da Calçadinha cafe at high speed on monday evening, running over the owner of the cafe, and the commander of the volunteer firefighters who was there off duty.
The cafe owner suffered injuries to his legs, the commander had several cuts to his legs, and three further victims were thrown and pressed against the counter of that commercial establishment.
The 'incident' was a deliberate act by the driver, who wanted to take revenge for the fact that minutes before, one of the cafe's employees had refused to sell him a range of beers on sale. At first, the customer argued and fought with the employee, but other people present separated the two. The driver ended up leaving the cafe with a friend, but returned later, alone, at which point he rammed the car into the cafe.
The driver also ended up suffering injuries, but still tried to flee the scene. He reversed, but ended up crashing his damaged vehicle into the fire commander's personal vehicle, which was parked next to the cafe. It was at that time that the people detained the driver until the arrival of the GNR soldiers from the local Monforte police station.
Two of the victims – the fire commander and a female customer – had to receive hospital treatment for the cuts they suffered. The suspect was also taken to the hospital, but he ended up signing a liability waiver and was discharged.
People told the GNR that it was not an accident, but rather an intentional 'ramming', which led the GNR to call the Évora Judicial Police, as this scenario could result in five attempted murders – one for each victim.
The Judicial Police inspectors were on the scene until 2 am carrying out inspections at the site, they collected images from the video surveillance system installed in the cafe, and returned on Tuesday to interview people who were present in the cafe at the time of the event.
According to people, this is not the first time that the suspect has caused trouble in other establishments in this region of Alentejo.
The losses have yet to be quantified by the cafe's current management, who had only been in charge of the cafe for two months, but the damage to the facade, furniture, counter and various merchandise suggests that it could amount to several thousand euros.
The main suspect has been formally detained by the authorities.
Source https://postal.pt/
