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The Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca
Theater in Lisbon, volunteers in Porto. “I feel that we are too politically distracted, collectively, civilly.”
On Tuesday, a group with alleged motivations neo -Nazis attacked elements of the theater company the tent. One of the actors, Adoreito Lopes, was.
At least two of the attackers are members of the far right group “blood and honor.” One of them was involved in the murder of 30 years ago, on the same date (June 10).
On the same day, Tuesday, two were assaulted by two men in Porto. Women distributed food to homeless people.
The two attackers did Nazi greetings and held women responsible for increasing immigration in Portugal. One of the detainees also assaulted a public security police officer.
For now, Luís Montenegro does not speak on the subject.
The Prime Minister had been outside Portugal at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France. In the meantime, he returned and, yesterday, Thursday, was at the Jeronimos Monastery for the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Adhesion Treaty to the European Economic Community.
But it still does not react to these aggressions by neonazis, which leaves Grace Fonseca shocked: “I am shocked by the absence of the prime minister in the public space. I am really shocked, because silence in the face of violence means agreeing with violence and what is happening. The prime minister cannot refer to silence and invisibility in the face of what is happening.”
Na, the former Minister of Culture warns: “Freedom of creation scares a lot of neo-Nazi groups and authoritarianism. We know it from history, but that is precisely why it seems so serious the silence, because the moment we ceased to exist ministry of culture and when we need this dimension of freedom, it was very important that the government, through the prime minister, took a very clear position.”
“It is not admissible in a democracy and, for that, we We need strong political power and say that it is not admissible“He justified.
Graça Fonseca, who is “deeply angry”, goes further and points to the collective: “I am deeply angry because we are collectively leaving that the degradation of democracy and the attack on freedom that are almost normality. I feel that we are too politically distracted, collectively, civilically. I feel We are all too inattentive and that the situation we are living will accelerate very quickly“.
“I feel that you leave you install fear To speak, the fear of being on stage and that the fear of saying that I do not accept if it will accelerate too much, ”warned the former minister.
Presidency Minister Leitão Amaro assured on Thursday that “extremist threats, such as other sources of security threat, are being monitored.” And he assured that one of the government’s priorities is to have more police on the street, as well as “faster justice”.
