The Criminal Investigative Information Unit said in a statement that the 40-year-old detainee “was located in the municipality of Lisbon having previously lived in the United Kingdom, where he was immigrated until the end of 2015, after when he returned to Portugal”.

The detainee is charged with “committing a number of crimes of rape involving minors, within a family context, between 2012 and 2015”.

The man was heard at the Lisbon Court of Appeal, which instructed he await the terms of the extradition proceedings in remand.