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Police forces in the Zambujal neighborhood.
The departure of a chapter on the presence of the far right in Portugal of the Annual Internal Security Report (RASI) was an agreement of the security forces that make up the Coordinating Office of Security, and was approved by two ministers.
A section of the report that spoke, over five pages, “Hybrid and extremist threats”referring specifically to the Blood & Honor NeoNazi Group (B&H), whose name is a reference to the Hitler Youth motto, “blood and honor”.
This terrorist organization has been involved in attacks in Europe and the US, and is also already installed in Portugal, at least since 2018according to what underlined the chapter withdrawn, as mentioned (DN).
The chapter was written by elements of the Judicial Police and was removed from the final version of Rasi, approved on March 28, after a meeting attended by the Minister of Internal Administration and Justice, Margarida Blasco and Rita Judiceas the DN also learned.
The dangers associated with Blood & Honor
It is signaled in several European countries, and has already been Banido in Spain.
The PJ referred to the removed part of Rasi “the lack of adoption of a common position, especially at the level of the European Union”, noting that it could “generate the creation of Safe havens [refúgios] For the development of their activities ”, already verifying a recurring“ shift from some of its members ”.
The chapter withdrawn also noted that “online platforms have been the privileged stage of acting of the far-right decentralized movements of acceleration and/or satanic matrix, where, through a communication culture through memesrecruit and radicalize more and younger individuals, many of them with ages less than 16 years“.
“The evolution of this phenomenon in recent years imposes that the threat represented by any far-right solitary actors, especially minors, cannot be despised“It was also noted in the chapter taken from Rasi.
The Office of the Secretary-General of the Internal Security System (SG-SSI), the prosecutor Patrícia Barão, note that the “changes made to the work document are the product of discussion of all interveners”At a meeting of the Security Coordinating Office (GCS) that had“ as invited the Minister of Justice and Internal Administration“.
The GCS is composed by the Secretary General of SG-SSI, the Secretary-General of the Portuguese Republic Information System, and elements of GNR, PSP, PJ, Strategic Defense Information Service, Security Information Services, National Maritime Authority, National Civil Aviation Authority, National Aeronautical Authority, Prison Services and Civil Protection.
However, the Minister of Internal Affairs guaranteed the Left Bloc, after a request for explanations of this party, which unknown “at all the existence of any other version other than the official version ”that was approved and sent to the deputies, as mentioned by DN.
