Former IPDJ president confirms “Benfica above the law” – Benfica

Augusto Baganha confirmed that he wrote down in his notebook, in 2017, the words that have been attributed to the Minister of Education. In that meeting, where João Paulo Rebelo, Secretary of State for Sport and Youth, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, also said that “Benfica are above the law” and that “we cannot treat all clubs equally. “.

“I confirm. I have taken note of it. And as I said before, there are witnesses, but I do not want to reveal them here,” said the former president of the Portuguese Institute of Sports and Youth (IPDJ), in an interview with Porto Canal .

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Still on the subject of alleged pressures in the sense that the law has not been respected, in the context of the trials of the red cheerleaders, the former leader of the IPDJ said that the government “has made some insinuations that are not the best”. “What if I suggested closing our eyes? They didn’t speak in that concrete way. The institutions under the tutelage of the government must have this principle of respect for the law. It is to act impartially and impartially,” Baganha considered, adding that from a certain point the IPDJ “was surrounded by giving continuity to its competences”.

Baganha also found it “strange” that the Secretary of State for Sport allegedly met the Benfica lawyer in the context of these trials.

“In this case, he has to receive the Benfica president. If the Benfica president wants to be accompanied by the lawyer, that’s fine. Things need to be dealt with properly. The Benfica lawyer appeared to talk to him and, according to I was told, the lawyer is also a member of the PS. The Secretary of State for Sport should have an institutional interview with the Benfica president. He did not want to do that and handled this case incorrectly, “he said.