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Luís Montenegro hit with green paint
Incident with activist took place just over a year ago in Lisbon during the campaign for legislative elections.
It was on February 28 last year: Luís Montenegro It was green by a young man at the entrance of the Lisbon Tourism Scholarship during an election campaign action.
Montenegro was then a candidate for prime minister and was hit by a climate activist, which was immediately removed by a PSP agent.
The climate activist who, in 2024, hit with green ink Luís Montenegro was today ordered to pay a fine of 1600 euros, for spoiling the clothes PSD President and a CDS photographer.
The local court of small crime of Lisbon considered the 19 -year -old university student, guilty of Two damage crimes e acquitted it of another, related to the Police clothing who at the time grabbed him to stop him.
Vicente Fernandes, activist of the student climate strike, is still obliged in Indemnify in 958 euros the current prime minister and in 527, more interest rates, the photographer of the CDS.
At the time, Luís Montenegro reacted with peace of mind, even with some smiles. He said he is “prepared for everything” and suggested it would have been more effective if the young man had talked to him. “Tim not to you!” He commented.
More uncomfortable, he was next to that day. Visibly uncomfortable, the CDS leader described this “abnormal and cowardly act of people who are not aware”, classified the incident as “a stupid joke of a kids who have no notion of the world in which they do not respect others” and spoke of an “imposition with political agenda, for violence”, suggesting that there is one there is one party behind this action“Do you have any doubt that this form of statement is not politically instrumentalized?”
