“Today they will have to kill people.” 62 children have just been left homeless in Loures

This Monday, demolitions of self-constructed houses in the Military Talude neighborhood, in Loures, took place. The municipality had given residents 48 hours for vacancy. Today, about 60 children were homeless.

The execution of demolitions of self -constructed houses in the Military Talude neighborhood, in Louresordered by the municipality, it tore around 12 noon after the police were forcibly removed residents concentrated at the scene to try to prevent the operation.

By the end of June, there had already been demolitions in the neighborhood. This time, the municipality said on Friday, edicts announcing new demolitions and gave residents 48 hours for vacancy.

According to the fair life, they are concerned “More than 60 dwellings”.

To SIC, the movement speaks of 62 Children Dislocated.

For the terrain, they were two backhoeone used to demolish the houses and one to collect the rubble.

Several outraged residents lie in front of the machines to prevent work. “To pass, they will have to kill people”he heard in the sound of the SIC report.

During the advance of the mobilized machine for operations, and after a police reinforcement on site, agents of the rapid intervention team of PSP intervened with Ticks to ward off residents and one person was dragged on the floorfound Lusa on the spot.

Only later did the demolition of the house began with number 1.062, at the entrance of the neighborhood.

In the morning, the councilwoman of the Loures City Council responsible for the Municipal Police, Paula Magalhãeswas at the entrance of the military slope, but refused to talk to journalists inside the neighborhood.

“Today will have to kill people”

Dozens of residents of the Military Talude neighborhood in Loures tried to prevent the execution of demolitions of self -constructed houses ordered by the municipality, in a increasing climate of tension with the police.

“Let’s not get out of here, Today will have to kill people”Said one of the residents, at the door of a self -construction housing, after an attempted municipal services, accompanied by the Municipal Police, with the removal of people from the houses.

Upon arrival in the neighborhood, a attorney that has been following these processes in the Life Life Movement appealed to people not to leave homereporting that “there is no court order” for these demolition operations.

“People have the right to stay in their homes And if they want to perform the operation, they will have to be forcibly removed, ”said the lawyer, addressing the residents.

Speaking to Lusa, Gonçalo Filipefrom the Life Life Movement, stressed that there are ongoing judicial procedures that prevent the execution of demolitions, criticizing the Chamber of Loures for this “Aggressive approach”.

Police burden

But then, more than a dozen elements of the rapid intervention team of the PSP ended up to force residents to force from the neighborhood.

The movement is fair and lawyers on the site repeated that this operation was executed without a court order.

Several dozen residentsamong men, women and children, who scream for “Another solution” and ask for a meeting with the mayor of Loures, Ricardo Leão.

In the afternoon, demolition operations remain in a less tense climate, with the residents to remove the goods from their homes.

Several residents are anticipating the operationdisassembling the plate and wood themselves, with which They say they spent thousands of eurosso they can reuse them elsewhere.

The scenario in the neighborhood is stacked mattresses, sofas, chairs, various types of appliances and all that was inside the houses.

However, still out of the neighborhood, Paula Magalhães confirmed to Lusa that demolitions will continue in this and other self -construction neighborhoods, without specifying which.

Contacted by Lusa, over the weekend, the Chamber of Loures said that its actions are “always within legality and in absolute respect for judicial decisions and with priority to safety, public health and human dignity.”

The municipality considered that the Life Life Movement continues “to instrumentalize people in a situation of vulnerability”but does not have “any concrete solution to the serious problem of uncontrolled proliferation of illegal constructions.”

“The Loures City Council will continue to act responsibly, supporting those who demonstrate the willingness to fulfill and reject the disorderly building of tents in the county,” reads in the response of the municipality.

Demolitions in Amadora

Also in Amadora, reported the fair life, were posted notices with a view to the demolition of 16 dwellings on the Military Road (Water Mine).

Also out there, given to families two days to leave.

The Amadora Chamber, presided over by Vítor Ferreira (PS), said that “it will not allow the proliferation of illegal constructions” and that new illegal constructions were identified on the Miline Military Road (Former neighborhood of Santa Filomena). S

Demolidated errors, because “they represent a setback in the efforts that the municipality has been developing”.

According to the municipality, families had accompanied to find “legal and emergency solutions” that guarantee “public health and human dignity”.

Violation of the law?

For the fair life movement, these demolitions violate the law (Namely the legal regime of urbanization and building and the housing bases and their regulation) and also the Portuguese State’s commitments on human rights.