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mudou-se há uns tempos de Fleet Street para Canary Wharf, tendo a praça em causa ficado com o nome Reuters Plaza. Filmaram-se aí cenas de, por exemplo, o Fiel Jardineiro (The Constant Gardiner, de John Le Carré).

Mas isso agora não interessa nada.

O que vem ao 'caso', é a notícia que divulgaram ontem sobre Portugal.

No 'caso' concreto, uma decisão judicial na qual o Tribunal compreende parcialmente a indignação de um marido 'enganado', que entrou num restaurante e matou a tiro o amante da sua mulher.

Isto poderia ser um folhetim do século XIX, mas enfim.

E assim acontece.

Abaixo segue a notícia, que naturalmente provocará em Londres reacções algures entre o riso e considerações sobre a cultura 'latina' e sul-europeia, e uma certa matriz rural.

Portuguese court "comprehends" crime of passion
Reuters Monday November 6, 03:15 PM

LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese court has reduced the prison sentence of a man convicted of killing his wife's lover to 12 years after ruling the community "partly comprehends" his motives, daily Jornal de Noticias reported on Monday.

The man had previously been sentenced to 17 years in jail for murder.

"I have been a cuckold for 15 years but today this will end," the daily reported the man as saying as he stormed into a restaurant and shot his wife's lover in the chest with a shotgun last year.

But now the court ruled that the defendant had "simply wanted to kill the man that had a relationship with his companion which had dishonoured him."

"The conduct of the individual had a motivation the community does not accept but partly comprehends," the newspaper reported the court's ruling as saying.