The Portugal Prosecutor’s Office of Portugal (PGR) announced this Wednesday the delivery to the Portuguese authorities of Fábio Loureiro, one of the five detainees escaped on September 7, 2024 from the Vale prison of Judeus. He was captured last October in Tangier, Morocco. It is the second fugitive found abroad to be handed over to Portugal, after the British Mark Cameron Roscaleer, extradited about two weeks ago.
“The escape of the penitentiary establishment of Vale de Judeus, Fábio Loureiro, captured in Tangier by the Moroccan authorities on October 6, 2024, was given last Wednesday to the Portuguese judicial police (PJ), in close collaboration with the public prosecutor’s office of the Republic, within the framework of international judicial cooperation. After the useful presentation of a formal request for extradition by the public prosecutor of the Republic, it was granted by the authorities of the Kingdom of Morocco, “read the joint press release of the PGR and the PJ.
The press release also recalls that the international police operation that enabled the prisoner’s reuptake triggered less than 24 hours after his escape. It benefited from the active support of the Spanish Policía Nacional Cuerpo (CNP) as well as from the General Directorate of Surveillance of the Moroccan Territory (DGST).
Fábio Loureiro had been arrested in Tangier on October 7, 2024, a month after his escape from the penitentiary center located in AlcoNentre.
He had been sentenced for abduction crimes, drug trafficking, criminal association, armed robbery and escape.
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