Our concern about the lack of respect on the streets of Lisbon continued.
The president of the Union of Parishes Santo António dos Cavaleiros and Frielas, in the municipality of Loures, where a bus was burnt this morning, told Lusa this Thursday that the PSP is strengthening security in that area.
“I spoke this afternoon with the squadron commander [da PSP] who said there was a reinforcement of monitoring and resources in the territory”, said Jorge Silva.
The story is regrettable, The mayor complained about the lack of PSP resources and the policing of nearby areas.
“They do a lot with few resources“, he stressed, adding that he was in permanent contact with the president of the Loures Association, Ricardo Leão, and the PSP.
Remembering the early hours of this Thursday, Jorge Silva said that It was a “complex situation” which “escalated very quickly”.
“I then received a warning from the Loures fire department about the fire in the passenger vehicle. I still had hope that it was an accident, but everything pointed to the situation that was happening and what caused it” and not an accident, he said.
Mortágua expresses solidarity with a bus driver who was set on fire in Loures
The president of the Union of Parishes said that the action against the bus disturbed the community because it was done “with an insider”the driver, who was hospitalized in serious condition.
Expressing that he has “declined the action against the driver”, who wished him a “speedy recovery”, the mayor added that. There is a feeling of rebellion in Santa António dos Cavaleiros about what happenedfor the issue, not only the material interest, but the attack on human life”.
Three people injured and 13 detained since Wednesday in riots in the Lisbon region
At the end of the day, normalcy had already been re-established in the parish, with Jorge Silva describing it as a “normal coexistence, residential and commercial” area.
The disturbance that took place this week in several municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area was caused by the death of Odair Moniz, a resident of Amadora, in the Lisbon area, shot by a policeman.
PSP insists that the agents involved in the death of Odair Moniz were threatened with a sharp weapon
A PSP agent was shot early Monday, in Bairro da Cova da Moura, in the same municipality, Odair Moniz, 43 years old and a resident of Bairro do Zambujal, in Amadora, in the same municipality, and he died shortly after , at the San Francisco Hospital. Xavier, in Lisbon.
The protests sparked by his death began in Zambujal, on Monday night, and have spread, since Tuesday, to other neighborhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
In total, more than a dozen people were detained. In addition to the bus driver who suffered serious burns, several citizens were seriously injured and two police officers received hospital treatment.
According to the PSP, Odair Moniz “ran out” in a car after seeing a police vehicle and “got into trouble” in Cova da Moura, where, when the agents approached him, “he resisted the arrest and tried to attack them with the use. your blade weapon.”
The SOS Racismo society and the Vida Justa movement contested the police version and demanded a “serious and impartial” investigation to determine “all responsibility”, assuming a “culture of impunity” in the police.
The General Inspectorate for Internal Administration opened an urgent investigation and the PSP also announced an internal investigation, and the agent who shot the man was named as a defendant.