About 70 people expressed this Saturday in Albufeira in favor of diversity and against discrimination, in response to another demonstration also summoned to the city by the far right group 1143.
With posters such as “The Algarve belongs to everyone” or “In Albufeira there is no room for fascists”, the protesters concentrated in the Fisherman Square at 15:00 and traveled some arteries from the city’s downtown, in an action that took place in a peaceful way and under GNR surveillance.
Protected by a device that placed agents around the protesters and on the streets of the route, the group completed the protest around 16:00 without any conflicts between elements of the two demonstrations, which had different times and meeting points and did not intersect.
Hugo Lopes, from the Anti-Discrimination Front Algarve (), one of the promoters of the demonstration in defense of immigration, explained the Lusa agency that the protest was called “not only in response to the manifestation of Group 1143, which as it is known is led by Mario Machado ”, neo -nazi convicted of hatred crimes.
“We also want to show that the Algarve is not all in line with this thought that is proven to be wrong, to associate immigration with crime,” said the fairy manager, who defended the need to “verbalize” opposition to the ideas defended by the extreme -Reed and rejected that the Algarve is mostly against immigration.
“I think it is incomprehensible to be a group with this history at the door of a public building,” he criticized, regarding the demonstration of Group 1143, which he classified as “fascist character”, with cases of hatred as “appeals to the violations of women on the left ”, Which were worth a condemnation of Mario Machado.
João Costa was another of the participants and told Lusa that he decided to be present in the protest against discrimination because he does not feel “comfortable with neo -Nazi protests”, such as group 1143 summoned to 18:00, in front of the Albufeira Chamber.
“Immigration is not by far the problem of the Algarve, the problem is economic and structural inequalities, not foreigners,” he said.
Paolo Funasi, from the Albufeira Foreign Association, justified his presence in protest with the need to “promote integration and peace” in a country that is “sought by immigration to have a better life and not to commit crimes”.
At 18:00, the far-right group 1143 called a protest entitled “Less Immigration-Less Crime”, with the presence of militant Neonazi Mário Machado, against Albufeira City Council.
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