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Being a victim of crime abroad

  • 07-09-2005 10:55pm
    #1
    gaf1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    Last Friday night in Praia da Rocha in Portugal I had had my cheekbone broken in 3 places, my jaw knocked out of place, my nose broken and my eye blackened when I was beaten up and robbed meaning I've got to have surgery tomorrow to fix up my mangled face. As a result of this I am quite angry and would love to see the guys that did it to me brought to justice. The incident happened about 100 meters from a nightclub there, and I know that the guys that did it to me where in the same club, and had been kicked out by the bouncers, so if the cctv was working they should be on it.

    I was just wondering has anyone else here being successful in taking an action of perpetrators of crimes against them when they were abroad?


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  • #2
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    Were the thugs locals (I doubt it) or any idea of their nationality?

    The CCTV is definitely your best route, and the Portuguese police are pretty OK in my experience.

    There are plenty English speaking legal professionals in the Algarve, so if I were you, I'd have a go at it, and try and bring the thugs to justice.

    Was it a 'mugging' or was it an random assalult and you were the unlucky one they decided to pick on?


  • #3
    gaf1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    yeah they were 4 portuguese lads. i'm just out of hospital today. i'm gonna write a letter to the nightclub anyway, and the local police there - i was in touch with the portuguese embassy here they seemed helpful on the phone but haven't heard from them since. i was beaten up, kicked in the face and then they emptied my wallet. if they had only asked for the €30 I would have given it to them, the amount of hassle it has caused me...

    Cheers for the encouragement, culchie, that's a good idea about contacting algarve legal firms too.


  • #4
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    gaf1983 wrote:
    yeah they were 4 portuguese lads. i'm just out of hospital today. i'm gonna write a letter to the nightclub anyway, and the local police there - i was in touch with the portuguese embassy here they seemed helpful on the phone but haven't heard from them since. i was beaten up, kicked in the face and then they emptied my wallet. if they had only asked for the €30 I would have given it to them, the amount of hassle it has caused me...

    Cheers for the encouragement, culchie, that's a good idea about contacting algarve legal firms too.

    I go to Portugal every year and never heard of trouble from Portuguese.

    However, of all the places in the whole of Portugal, Praia de Rocha, is the most likely place there will be trouble.

    Unlucky Pal, hope it all gets sorted.


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