Portugal: Lisbon Shocked by Beheading

Lisbon is in shock over the murder and beheading that occurred in their city sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, the decapitated body of a man was found on a street in the center of the city. The next day, a man showed up at a police post in a city hospital with the severed head and confessed to having killed the victim. It appears that the alleged perpetrator, an  African engineering student, and the victim, a Portuguese citizen of African origin, had hooked up sometime Tuesday night for a homosexual encounter that went wrong. The exact motive for the crime at this point seems to be a disagreement between the two, which is not further detailed.   

The article below from Noticias ao Momento is translated by Fousesquawk.

Man who delivered severed head confessed. Met the victim a few hours previous.

The man who was detained on Thursday, after having delivered to the São José Hospital the head of the body found decapitated on Patio Salema (street) at Rossio (Square) in the center of Lisbon on Wednesday, confessed to the crime. The victim and the attacker (only) met each other on that night (Translator: Tuesday).

The information was provided by CNN Portugal, which reported that the victim and the attacker became acquainted on the night of the crime, which was motivated by a disagreement of an as-yet-to-be-determined nature. Both are foreigners, according to that channel.

Noticias ao Minuto (news outlet) has learned that the victim is a citizen of African origin.

The suspect, who is an engineering student (29), confessed to having committed the homicide and the mutilation with a kitchen knife on a public street. Besides this, he detailed every moment of the crime, as well as what he did in the hours that followed up to leaving the head of the victim at a police post in the São José Hospital at 3:30 pm today.  As reported by CNN-Portugal, the head was inside a backpack.

The individual confessed to being involved in the incident. He was turned over to the custody of the Judicial Police, the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the Public Security Police (PSP) told Noticias ao Minuto.

The man will be brought to court on Friday for the application of enforcement measures.

The decapitated body was found at 6:45 am on Wednesday, as confirmed to Noticias ao Minuto by the PSP.