O Left block asked for clarification from the government About the disappearance of the final version from the chapter dedicated to extremist organizations. The minister of the internal administration says that document on the government website was The one who was worked on.
“Since the general secretary of the internal security system had occasion to inform the press, I will not make any more comment,” said Margarida Blasco, after being asked about the fact that the final version of Rasi was disappeared the chapter dedicated to extremist organizations.
The minister said that the document that has been available on the government’s ‘website’ since Tuesday was the one who was workedas I had already stated the SSI.
After the document was sent to the Assembly of the Republic and published on the Government’s website, the About the disappearance of the final version from the chapter dedicated to extremist organizations.
SSI explanations
In an answer sent to Lusa, SSI admitted that There was a “work version” of the annual internal security report that included information on extremist organizations, different from the “official version” presented at the meeting of the Superior Council of Internal Security, held on Monday.
“Any other version to which the media may have had access respects a work version subject to discussion and reformulations In the Coordinating Security Coordinator and the Superior Council of Internal Security, “said the SSI, responsible for the elaboration of RASI.
SSI also clarified that the version published on the government’s website on Tuesday corresponds to version presented at the meeting of the Superior Council of Internal Security and the version sent to the deputies of Parliament, having not clarified why the information about extremist organizations of the work version was removed.
In the Rasi document sent this Tuesday to Parliament, and available ‘online’ on the government page, There are no pages 35 to 39 which were in the initial version, referring to the chapter “Hybrid Extremisms and Threats”, and warned of the existence of a representation of an international extremist organization in Portugal, classified in several countries as a terrorist organization.
According to the preliminary version, there is no far-right organization in Portugal as a terrorist, although there is an arm of an international extremist organization that is classified as a terrorist in other countries.
Without specifying the organization in question, this version of Rasi pointed to the existence of this branch of an extremist organization in Portugalwhich has already been the target of financial sanctions in various countries for terrorism financing.
This organization, added the preliminary report, promotes meetings through music eventsincluding in the national territory, and that function as Militant Recruitment Method and as a form of financing for the production of advertising material, for example.
This information is not in the final version and the left block considers that the Change “arouses founded doubts on the reason behind this change, therefore, there is a thorough clarification. “The party wants to know” who ordered the elimination “of this part of Rasi and if the government considers it to send a new version in which the information present in the preliminary document is included.
This year there was no presentation of Rasi: Why?
Usually, Rasi is presented after the meeting of the Superior Council for Internal Security by the Secretary-General of the Internal Security System, together with the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Justice, which did not happen this year. This Monday, was the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who spoke during the press conference, without revealing the final document and having answered only a question from journalists.
Asked about not having this year this presentation, Margarida Blasco justified with the fact that Government to be in managementbut highlighted the prime minister’s statements at the end of the meeting of the Superior Council for Internal Security.
