An elderly Portuguese man has been convicted of the racist murder of a black actor in Lisbon last year. Evaristo Marinho was found guilty of killing 39-year-old Bruno Candé by shooting him six times after an altercation that included racist comments in July 2020. The court in Loures — a municipality in the northern suburbs of the Portuguese capital — convicted Marinho, 76, of homicide aggravated by racial hatred. He was sentenced to 22 years and nine months in prison, according to Portuguese media. Marinho had confessed to the murder at the trial. The court heard how his racist thoughts had been motivated from when the veteran served during Portugal’s colonial war in Angola between 1963 and 1974. Candé was born in Portugal to a family from Guinea-Bissau, another former African colony of the Iberian country. The case has highlighted racism in Portugal and led to allegations that police had tried to cover up the motive for the murder. Soon after the killing, hundreds of anti-racism protesters descended on one of Lisbon’s main squares to demand justice for Candé and all other victims of racism.
via euronews: Bruno Candé: Portuguese man convicted of racist murder of black actor
siehe auch: Bruno Candé: White man jailed for Portugal murder of black actor. A white man who shot dead a black actor in Portugal last year has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Bruno Candé, 39, was shot several times by Evaristo Marinho, 77, after being threatened days earlier. Marinho was convicted of racially motivated murder and handed 22 years and nine months behind bars. The killing sparked anti-racism demonstrations to demand justice for Mr Candé, who was of Guinean origin. He was a father of three, and a member of the Casa Conveniente theatre group. Evaristo Marinho, a retired nursing assistant, served in the military during the colonial war against African independence in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Days before the shooting, the court heard that he racially abused Mr Candé while the actor walked his dog, telling him, among other things, to “go back to your country”. Marinho returned to the same street where that altercation occurred several times to find Mr Candé, local media reports, and fatally shot him on 25 July, 2020.
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