Public prosecutors appeal judge’s green-light to Mário Machado In yet another strange example of shutting the door long after the horse has bolted, Portuguese public prosecutors have announced that they will be appealing the judicial decision which freed neonazi Mário Machado from bail conditions so that he could lead a ‘humanitarian mission’ to Ukraine. It is difficult to understand what this appeal hopes to achieve: Machado set off yesterday, and will have crossed several borders by now. This institutional compulsion to slam doors shut when there is no-one left in the room (or stable) is becoming more and more apparent....