Riots in Lisbon: a bus was stoned and recycling bins and containers burned, but the night was calmer
A Carris bus was stoned this evening in the Boavista neighborhood, in the parish of Benfica, but only suffered material damage, an official PSP source told Lusa, which reinforced the police force in Lisbon and the metropolitan area.
A group of people threw “stones at a bus that passed by, causing some damage”, PSP spokesperson, deputy Sérgio Soares, told Lusa, next to Bairro da Boavista, in the municipality of Lisbon, separate from Bairro do Zambujal, in the municipality of Amadora, by CRIL — Lisbon Internal Regional Circular (IC17).
No injuries resulted from the incident, said the same source, adding that in Amadora, operational reinforcement was set up in the Zambujal neighborhood, where acts of vandalism have been taking place since Monday in retaliation for the death of a resident of the neighborhood, in neighboring Cova da Moura. , shot by a PSP agent.
In addition to the Cova da Moura neighborhood, the PSP reinforced patrolling in the neighborhoods of Santa Filomena and Casal da Mira, where on Wednesday several garbage bins burned, and in the center of Lisbon “a more muscular device” was also mobilized, with the Intervention Corps, for Marquês de Pombal, Avenida da Liberdade, Praça dos Restauradores and Rossio, due to possible disorders.
At the Repsol gas station on Segunda Circular, towards Pina Manique, Lusa found that the PSP had set up a strong Traffic Division device, supported by the 3rd Division police station and elements of Criminal Investigation (Benfica).
A group of about half a dozen ‘bikers’ tried to escape the fuel pump, jumping down the sidewalk onto Rua Dr. João Couto, and three were stopped by agents, while the others managed to escape, and several motorcycles were seized.
“We have reinforced policing in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area [AML]in the various municipalities, from Lisbon, Oeiras, Cascais Odivelas, Sintra, Amadora and Loures, and on the south bank, in Almada, Barreiro, Seixal and Setúbal”, explained the PSP spokesperson.
Burnt garbage containers and recycling bins
According to the website of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), there were fires in recycling bins and waste containers in Odivelas, Sintra (União das Freguesias de Sintra and Algueirão-Mem Martins) and in Torres Vedras (São Pedro and Santiago , S. Maria and S. Miguel and Matacães).
At least nine recycling bins/garbage containers were set on fire in the municipalities of Setúbal, Almada and Seixal, reported the Sub-regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of the Setúbal Peninsula.
According to the same source, several recycling bins were detected burning in Laranjeiro, Almada, Amora, Seixal, and in the areas of São Sebastião and Gâmbia, Pontes and Alto da Guerra, in the municipality of Setúbal.
This type of acts of vandalism has been frequent in recent days in several AML neighborhoods, following the death of Odair Moniz, a 43-year-old Cape Verdean man who was fatally shot on Monday by a PSP agent in Bairro da Cova da Moura, in Amadora.
According to the PSP, the man “ran away” in a car after seeing a police vehicle and “got into trouble” in Cova da Moura, where, when approached by the agents, “he resisted arrest and tried to attack them with the use of a bladed weapon”.
The SOS Racismo association and the Vida Justa movement contested the police version and demanded a “serious and impartial” investigation to determine “all responsibilities”, considering that “a culture of impunity” in the police is at stake.
The General Inspectorate of Internal Administration and the PSP opened investigations and the agent who shot the man was named a defendant.
Since Monday night, there have been riots in Zambujal and, since Tuesday, in other neighborhoods of ÁML, where buses, cars and rubbish bins were burned. More than a dozen people were arrested, the driver of a bus suffered serious burns and two police officers received hospital treatment, with some citizens also suffering minor injuries.
