Ba wrote on social media in 2020 that Mario Machado, founder of several extreme-right movements in Portugal, was “one of the main figures in the murder of Alcindo Monteiro”, a Black man who was beaten to death in 1995 by skinheads in a wider, violent racist attack.
Machado, 46, was part of the group of skinheads who took to Lisbon’s streets on June 10, 1995, to attack Black people and was found guilty of inflicting “bodily harm” on other Black people, but not Monteiro, on the same night.
Monteiro, 27, died from his injuries. The court ruling convicting the 11 of Monteiro’s murder also said each individual who took part in the attacks on that night was responsible for the “event’s entirety”.
So, anti anti-racism activist basically repeats what the convicting court said, and gets hit with a fine for it.