The player of the Qatari club Al-Khor Rúben Semedoformerly of Villarreal, was arrested last morning by the Public Security Police (PSP) in Portugal accused of alleged domestic violence against your partnera security force source informed EFE this Sunday.
In these moments Semedo is arrested in police stations in Lisbonwaiting to appear tomorrow, Monday, to be judicially interrogated.
The source explained that the victim was held in her house by Semedo against her will, until she managed to escape. managed to ask for help and report the footballer. Immediately afterwards, the PSP asked the prosecutor’s office to issue an arrest warrant against Semedo, which was carried out last morning.
“She is fine, she has some wounds and bruises, but she is fine”the source has pointed out.
Semedo, 30 years old and of Portuguese-Cape Verdean nationality, has had problems with the law in recent years.
In January 2023, it was acquitted by an Athens court of gang rape charge Following a complaint from a 17-year-old girl in August 2021: the defender, who played for Olympiacos, was temporarily detained, although the court finally considered that there was not enough incriminating evidence.
Previously, in 2018, when he played for Villarreal, Semedo was imprisoned for 142 days for kidnapping and attacking a man in his home particular of Valencia.
At that time it was sentenced to ten years for illegal detention, injuries, robbery and illegal possession of weaponsbut this sentence ended up being reduced to five and in the end he did not have to return to prison in exchange for agreeing not to set foot in Spain for eight years.
Semedo currently plays for Al-Khor, where he joined on loan from the Qatari club Al-Duhail last July. Before landing in Qatar, where he has also been in Al-Markhiya, he played for Olympiacos and was in Spanish teams, such as Villarreal, Huesca and Reus, and Portuguese, such as Porto, Sporting, Vitória FC and Rio Ave.
As a Portuguese international he has played three times for the senior team, eleven for the under-21 team and four times for the under-20 team.