The Judicial Police (PJ) arrested, in Ponte de Lima, a 21-year-old man suspected of extortion, by threatening to disclose situations related to the victim's intimate life, today announced that force.
The suspect arranged a meeting with the victim in order to receive a sum of thousands of euros not to divulge his intimate life. The suspect was identified as a close relative of the victim.
He demanded tens of thousands of euros in exchange for the silence about episodes of his grandfather's intimate life. He was caught when he was trying to receive the money.
During the escape attempt, the suspect crashed into one of the police cars that integrated the operative device, eventually suffering "low-severe" injuries.