The former was stopped at a checkpoint in Rio de Janeiro and refused to blow into a device that would measure the alcohol content in your breath
Former Brazil striker Romario was fined for failing to submit to a breathalyser test at a roadblock set up by Brazilian authorities in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, official sources reported Tuesday.
The incident occurred early on Monday and chose Romario fined 957.70 reais (about 390 euros) to make a control that would measure the content of alcohol on his breath, according to a spokesman for the secretary of state of Rio de Janeiro.
Although Brazilian law prohibits drivers take the wheel after drinking alcoholic beverages and that the guards have modern alcohol tests, drivers can not be forced to undergo such tests.
The imposition of control would violate the right of citizens not produce evidence against themselves.
The vehicle driven by Romario was arrested at a roadblock which had been mounted in the neighborhood of Barra de Tijuca.
Besides paying the fine and lose points in the history of your driver's license, the former striker failed to explain the reason for their rejection to the review and was forced to call a friend to continue running his vehicle.
The fine was imposed a week after the striker began his political career by appearing in a program of electoral propaganda Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), training to be registered and you can dispute a regional deputy mandate in elections next October.
The former player and club official today said that America wants to enter politics in order to continue with its project to serve children in poor areas, 2,000 of which already offers soccer classes in an institution.
In Romario last December was forced to leave the luxury apartment where he lived because a judge auctioned to pay off a debt millionaire former soccer player. Also in December and another of the lawsuits it faces, the former striker was fined for tax evasion taxes.
Last year, Romario was imprisoned for 24 hours delay payment of the pension of two children from his first marriage.