Disturbances in Greater Lisbon: Prime Minister promises to use everything that “has to be mobilized to put an end to it”

The President spoke, the parties spoke, and, this Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister spoke to condemn last night’s violence in several neighborhoods of Greater Lisbon and promise do whatever it takes to “get it over with”that is, with the riots and disturbances that followed the death of a citizen by a PSP agent in the Cova da Moura neighborhood. “The security forces have been very restrained. If, eventually, we have to tighten this containment, we have to do so”, said Luís Montenegro, in Faro, where the Luso-Spanish Summit took place this Wednesday.

The Prime Minister assured that he has been following the case, as has the Minister of Internal Administration, Margarida Blasco, who has been bringing together the Internal Security System (SSI), despite her leadership being on an interim basis, and who has been the minister to promote “dialogue between all security forces and to ensure that there is no collision between the right of people to demonstrate, public tranquility and the right of movement” of citizens in neighborhoods where there have been disturbances.

“We have all of our resources mobilized to prevent violence from overcoming tranquility”, stated Montenegro and, asked about what the “tightening of containment” he spoke of might imply, he replied: “It implies whatever has to be mobilized to end this.” And he announced that the Government will take advantage of a meeting that was already scheduled for this Thursday, of the Metropolitan Command of Lisbon to meet with the mayors and “detail the best way to stop these episodes of violence, eliminate them and establish what It is in the public interest and in the interest of the country.”