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The “Don’t touch us against the wall” demonstration will take place this Saturday, but the PS mayor of Santa Maria Maior is not happy. But the internal split tends more towards one side: the majority of the party’s records are present.
At 3 pm on Saturday, January 11th, a demonstration entitled “Don’t push us against the wall”.
It will be a protest against the episode that occurred on December 19th at Rua do Benformoso, in Martim Moniz, which pressed dozens of people against the wall.
The operation carried out by the PSP resulted in two arreststhe seizure of 3,435 euros in cash, a passport, documents suspected of aiding illegal immigration, hashish, a knife and a stolen cell phone.
A group of approximately 700 citizens, including members of the PS, Bloco de Esquerda and Livre, presented a complaint to the Ombudsman’s Office, due to the conditions under which the operation was carried out, placing people against the wall
The spokesperson for the Solidariedade Imigrante association, Anabela Rodriguestold the Lusa agency that the protests arise “against the idea of using the powers of the State itself to reinforce insecurity and blame immigrants for everything that happens in the country”.
Now, prominent figures within the PS are appealing to citizens to join the event. The names figures such as (former President of Parliament) or José Vera Jardim (former Minister of Justice). The former leader of JS, Miguel Costa Matosthe former Minister of Finance and former Mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medinaas well as other former socialist ministers (such as Jorge Lacão, Luís Castro Mendes and Tiago Brandão Rodrigues), also defend the demonstration.
On the other side of the barricade is the president of the parish council of Santa Maria Maior, where the incident occurred, Miguel Coelho. The mayor wrote a text opposing the event.
“The demonstration may even have as promoters people who I value and who are convinced of its importance, but it is also sponsored by many populist radicals, ‘left-wing wokists’, who, by instrumentalizing the immigrant community targeted in the police operation, for whom until now they have expressed little concern or social solidarity, will seek to transform the demonstration into an attack on the police”, he stated.
He also took the opportunity to criticize the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedasfrom the PSD, which “has many responsibilities for this” since “talk, talk, talk…. but it doesn’t do anything.”
