Maria Helena Teixeira sits at the bus stop next to the Sawmill Tasquinha where a remote road Ferral, county Montalegre to explain that this is where the only public transport stops at its disposal to reach the Court of Vila Real.
But, if you take this bus, will face four hours of a journey full of twists and turns, often interrupted by cows and goats, now and then, take care of the road. Will be almost 180 kilometers to a snail’s pace.
It will testify at trial that the new judicial map Montalegre went to the court of Vila Real, where justice was tucked into containers to temporarily receive some the judgments of the district courts that have closed, at least for the most serious, decided by panels of three judges cases. The Court of Montalegre was only half an hour away.
Helena will tell the court how, three years ago, at dawn, a group of burglars took everything from the Sawmill Tasquinha . Was summoned to appear before the Court of Vila Real on 1 October, but still does not know how to reach there on time and the plan closed 20 courts, which concluded there was insufficient transport, does not give you answers There were no counties that courts where the population can not get now the headquarters of Justice where they were forwarded.
The judges want to hear Helena at 9:30, but the first bus of the day comes only reaches Vila Real to 13h. Or will Eve, and paid an overnight stay away from home, or lack thereof. And the taxi is out of the question. . Takes you almost 100 euros widow’s pension that is unemployed and without other means, survives within the country
The bus, if it came to working hours, when most would consider: 14, 70 euros. The first of Transdev bus leaves the village at 8:05 and arrives at 8.50 to Montalegre. There Helena would have to take the career of Autoviação Támega, which reaches Keys at 10am. And then wait an hour and a quarter by bus linking Chaves to Vila Real, where ever arrives at lunchtime.
“Call the police. The GNR to come get me. I will warn them. I have no car and no money. There had to have money to 90 euros by taxi or sleep in a hotel in Vila Real? I have to pay to be a witness? “Protests.
Next, Artur Goncalves of 23 years and the owner of the cafe where the robbers took 500 euros and the machine tobacco, also do not know how you will get the court. Expenses will be reimbursed, according to the Ministry of Justice, but you need to advance the money. “That close everything. Also close Vila Real. Do not go there. Want to sleep there the day before? They must think I go shopping or sightseeing “, exalteth himself on the porch of the tavern. This trial was marked up to Montalegre, but was delayed several times and now the court has become the de Vila Real. “The police come to get me. I will not. I have no money, “he repeats.
The other patrons of the tavern enter the discussion, which soon descends. “Transform the court in a house of girls.” “So that made us justice,” says another.
In the Way of the Cross Road there is little beyond this tavern and dense forest. On one side the tavern, set back from the road, the other a bus stop, dirty and taking the herbs. It seems that no one uses long.
In Alturas do Barroso, municipality of Vila Real, in the Serra do Barroso and 1100 meters above sea level, lives Manuel Fernandes. This pastor of 63 years also has to go to court. Is accounts with justice, but will not hear of going by bus to the Court of Keys, where the case was transferred. Former clerk of Justice service in the Army during the war of Ultramar, is charged with possession of illegal weapons. A year ago had a quarrel with a neighbor, claims, denounced the GNR for illegal possession of weapons.
Manuel Fernandes assumes that had two guns without a license. One was the father and was never registered. Took them to the mountain, to feel safer when was staying with goats and sheep on the High Dam of Rabagão.
Rest leaning against an olive tree in a small plot where has five cows and a mare named Bird. The Rola seems to listen to him carefully as the five dogs playing around him. “Live it. From time to time, seeing a cow or a calf. Sometimes gives 500 euros. But it is rare. I also have a grant of five thousand euros per year for livestock. But that, broken down by month, gives little. Us now take the court makes everything worse, “he stresses. And there’s public transportation here? “Not a thing, mind you. Here we have nothing, “he replies. What about the coaches that we move around? “Oh, that. That we have. “
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