The demonstrators demanded justice for Odair Moniz, the person shot by Portugal’s police drive.
1000’s in Lisbon took half in an indication towards police violence on Saturday after a number of nights of riots triggered by the dying of a person shot and killed by police earlier this week.
The demonstrators demanded justice for Odair Moniz, the Cape Verdean man shot by Portugal’s police drive.
A number of flags from the Vida Justice motion, which organised the protest, in addition to Cape Verde flooded Avenida da Liberdade.
Protesters chanted the slogan “Justice for Odair” as they demonstrated.
The best-wing Portuguese occasion Chega referred to as for a protest in defence of the police on the similar time in Lisbon.
That protest introduced collectively round 300 folks and lasted simply over an hour and a half.
Portuguese authorities stated cops had “intercepted a person who had been fleeing from the police” within the Alto neighbourhood of Cova da Moura shortly earlier than 6 am on Monday morning.
The police stated that when the officers “approached the suspect, he resisted arrest and tried to assault them with a weapon”, including that “one of many cops, having exhausted different means and efforts”, used a firearm and shot the suspect, “in circumstances to be investigated in a felony and disciplinary enquiry”.
In addition they stated that “the suspect was promptly assisted on the scene and transported to São Francisco Xavier Hospital,” however ended up dying.
In latest days, Portuguese police have reportedly recorded greater than 100 incidents of public disturbances in Lisbon.
Native media say they arrested greater than 20 folks and injured seven, one in every of whom was critically harm.
