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André Ventura, the arrival leader, with the zero movement t-shirt during police demonstration.
André Ventura announced on Thursday that the party will propose in the next legislature an amnesty for police who have been convicted of crimes committed in service, including homicides.
“Us Let’s propose in Parliament an amnesty for all police […] who were accused of, in the public service and in the context of defense of people, having interfered with physical integrity, or with life, or with the personal situation of criminals. That is, we will propose that the situation of all the police who had to use the weapon in service, who had to use force on service, to defend us, citizens, ”said André Ventura.
“They may have committed a crime at that time, but they committed to defend us. And today what we have is a lack of ability to defend ourselves, ”he said, considering that“ police have no authority to do anything ”and“ they have to stop being afraid of [a] exercise ”.
The arrival leader also indicated that the party will propose that the situations are analyzed on a case -by -case basis and argue that when “the police have acted in a danger situation, in defense of security and the population, it may be amnished.”
It is recalled that the Public Prosecution Service an investigation into André Ventura, Pedro Pinto and an aide of the party in October on suspicion of incitement to hatred Following the comments on a. The president of the arrival, who argues that the police are the victim of “political genocide,” said the PSP agent who shot Odair Moniz should be decorated and not a defendant: “We should thank this police for the work he did.”
Pedro Pinto, the party’s leader, mentioned in a RTP program that “if police fired to kill, the country was more in order.”
In the case of advisor Ricardo Reis, a publication on the social network X is concerned, where he stressed, about the death of the Cape Verdean citizen, that he was “except one criminal” and “except one voter of the bloc [de Esquerda]”.
About the controversial police operation at Martim Moniz, Ventura stressed several times: “They touch us to the wall.”
“If it was through the arrival there would be police every day,” he said. “They touch us to the wall! Both and again! They even realize that this country is ours and that the law is to fulfill!”
