The crime that occurred in Alameda das Antas, in Porto, during the celebrations for the FC Porto title, is now beginning to be revealed. Old confusions between two groups, aggressions and promises of reprisals that began at the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon, ended with the death of Igor Silva, the blue and white fan stabbed in the crowd on May 8 this year. And this Wednesday, exactly two months after the crime, Judicial Police announced the arrest of nine people, on suspicion of being linked to this case.

The PJ inspectors have been working and believe that they have already managed to put the pieces together to tell the story of that night. Considering that thousands of people participated in the championship festivities, this task became more difficult, a PJ source told the Observer. So far, ten people have been arrested. – Renato Gonçalves, in preventive detention for a month on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the crime, his father, Marco Gonçalves, known as Marco “Orelhas”, and eight friends and relatives.

The main suspect in the murder at the FC Porto title party is in preventive detention

All the detainees this Wednesday, aged between 20 and 42, are suspected of co-authorship of qualified homicide and crimes against physical integrity and will be presented before a judge this Thursday, to learn about the respective coercive measures. According to a PJ source, “some already had a history of aggression or drug trafficking.”

The arrests were not, however, a surprise, admitted the lawyer of three of the defendants in this case, Carlos Duarte, and added that these “the result of media pressure”. “The wheat was confused with the straw, defendants were brought who had nothing to do with the reported facts. In exchange for media pressure, you cannot confuse citizens who had nothing to do with the events. It’s one thing to be present at partiesit is one thing to be present in possible criminal practices, another thing is to participate in them.”

The assault prevented the victim from escaping.

“What happened here were personal issues, which were followed by physical attacks,” explained a source from the PJ, who stressed that, despite the fact that the suspects and the victim are fans of the club, the crime is not related to FC Porto.

The story will have begun in the match between Benfica and Porto, at Estádio da Luz, with several disagreements between Igor Silva’s group and Marco “Orelhas’s” group. And on the night of the Blue and Whites’ title festivitiesthe nine suspects arrested this Wednesday allegedly assaulted the 26-year-old girl. After the attacks, the suspects will have grabbed the victim, “preventing him from reacting and, therefore, being able to defend himself, being able to flee,” added a PJ source. Igor Silva was attacked with ten stab wounds to the chest and back and died on the spot.

This participation would have been significant so that there were conditions for the homicide, which otherwise would not have occurred. To that extent, there was a joint action.”

In addition to the arrests made by the PJ, after 13 house search warrants and nine arrest warrants, new pieces emerged that add to the story. According to CNN, which had access to audios sent to a group of the Super Dragons, by people who were present at the crime scene, Marco “Orejas” hit the victim with stones.

His son beat him with a kitchen knife and Marco always hit him on the head with stones. They both killed him. The son is the one who stuck the knife all over the place. They disfigured everything”, can be heard on the recording.

In another audio, sent by message and by another person, it is revealed that there would be more people than those who were arrested:: “It was Marco, his son and more, 15 boys were going there. It wasn’t just the two of them.”

And the messages that were exchanged between various members of the Super Dragons cheerleader confirm that the conflicts were not recent, as PC told the Observer, and that Igor Silva would have already been the target of an assassination attempt, even before the night of the title celebrations. The young man who died on May 8 was reportedly shot and treated at hospital. “The guy had barely left the hospital (…) he immediately went to rob a drug dealer, he was still feeling exhausted from the shots. My colleague was in prison and he called me and told me: ‘It was really to kill him’”, recounted one of the members of the group.

Marco “Orejas” had already gone to the police

The number two of the Super Dragons cheerleading squad, who is among those arrested in the framework of the Fim de Festa operation, gave himself to PJ last month and soon he was constituted imputed in the process of the death of the young adept. Marco “Orelhas” was a fugitive for a week and, when he turned himself in, he refused to give a statement to the authorities.

Marco “Orelhas” surrendered to the PJ and was charged in the murder process for the death of an FC Porto fan

But the death of Igor Silva did not translate into an end to disagreements between the two groups. After the young man was killed, a car entered the Cerco neighborhood in Porto, where Marco “Orelhas” is from, and the occupants began to shoot. The shots were heard near the house of the mother of the number two of the Super Dragons. There were no injuries or deaths, but the case was related to what happened the night of the festivities.

More recently, during the night of last Saturday, Marco “Orelhas” called the police after barricading yourself in a bar bathroom on Salgueiros beach, in Vila Nova de Gaia, for fear that several customers who entered that establishment might attack him, in revenge for the death of Igor Silva. Porto’s number two cheerleader only left the bathroom when the agents arrived and there were no incidents.

The fears of revenge do not end, however, with the arrest of “Ears” and the audio broadcast by CNN show that the threats can continue. “You are in disgrace. Pena in prison has three brothers who are even worse than Marco ‘Orelhas’”, can be heard in the message sent.