The Mozambican Migration Service told Lusa today that the conditions have been created for the repatriation, in the coming days, of the Portuguese technician Alberto Lário, who is due to be discharged from the hospital this Monday after being hospitalized with Covid-19.
We were just waiting for him to be discharged from the hospital to continue with the process,” explained Lusa Felizardo Jamaca, spokeswoman for the Mozambican Migration Service in the city of Maputo.
The coach, a figure who has been a benchmark for the new generations of athletics in Mozambique, was arrested just over two weeks ago, allegedly due to irregularities in his documentation.
Portuguese athletics coach Alberto Lário detained in Mozambique
A few days after his arrest, Alberto Lário was admitted to the Maputo Military Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.
Portuguese coach detained in Mozambique hospitalized after testing positive for covid-19
The last information I had was that today he would be discharged and after that we will continue with the process for him to be deported,” said Felizardo Jamaca.
According to the Mozambican authorities, Alberto Lário is in irregular situation since 2019year in which your Foreign Resident Identity Document (DIRE) expired.
Alberto Lário was forced to pay a fine of nearly one million meticais (15,000 euros) and, in order to regularize his situation, he must return to Portugal.
The fine has already been paid. But the procedures will still be carried out so that their situation is regularized,” Fulgêncio Seda, general director of the National Migration Service, told the media.
Alberto Lário, who was born in Mozambique and left the country very young, has had an application for nationality “pending” for more than six years, but the Mozambican Migration Service considers that the technician should have raised the issue with the authorities, to which filed the request, adding that there is no record of said request.
The Portuguese coach, who has trained and supported several young Mozambican athletes, achieved the milestone of placing Verónica José among the best female youth athletes in the world, in a bid that had the support of the Portuguese Association (AP) of Mozambique.
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The U20 World Athletics Championships in Cali, Colombia, will be the first major international competition for the 1,500-meter runner, who beat the time of 4.29 minutes in Braga, and has been improving her performance.
The arrest of the technician, product of a complaint made by the president of the Athletics Federation of Mozambique, Kamal Badrú, generated a wave of indignation among Mozambican athleteswho decided to organize a march to the Mozambican Migration Service building two weeks ago, demanding the release of “coach Lário”, as he is popularly known in Mozambique.
Source: Observadora
