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The video is fake, the PSP is unaware of the disappearance of Angolan citizens during the official visit of President João Lourenço to Portugal, the government does not comment on misinformation and the Angolan authorities deny the complaint of the arrival president. Lusa made Fact-Check: Ventura lied.
On July 27, the President of Arri denounced the alleged disappearance of more than 50 Angolan citizens from a larger group that would have traveled to Lisbon to participate in the initiatives to support the official visit of Angolan President João Lourenço, who was in Lisbon July 24 and 26.
According to one of André Ventura In X, this fact “is being hidden by the Portuguese government”.
In another, about “Lusophone corruption”, he released a video reiterating the complaint and the criticism he had already made to the Angolan President on the 25th, the first day of the official visit to Portugal.
In this video, currently with hundreds of thousands of viewsthe president of the arrival states that “it was demonstrated that it was the power of Angola who paid the trip, that brought them here and that took them to the front of Parliament to pretend that there was a place of support in Portugal to President João Lourenço”, in reference to the Angolans who focused on the Assembly of the Republic.
In the message, Ventura insists on the disappearance of some of these people. “Some fled, disappeared, we do not know where they areNow that it was time to return are lost in Portugal. See the shame and the discourage of this ”.
The complaint of the arrival seems to originate on the Facebook page NSISIS REFLECTIONSby the authorship of Angolan activist Jerónimo nsisanamely in a set of made the day before the 26th, according to which the Angolan government would have organized and paid the trip of a group of militants to participate in the “President Support Theater”.
One of the publications includes a video recorded in the arrival zone of Lisbon airport and allegedly shows “The chef’s cheerleader that left Angola to provide support to President João Lourenço in Portugal.
Another text advances that “of the 164 citizens who moved to Portugal, 54 gone outbecause they supposedly took the opportunity not to return to misery in Angola. ”
According to the same publication, which is the image that André Ventura shared on his social networks, this entourage traveled to Portugal with passports of service, a type of document whose use dispenses with the need for a visa, as agreed between the two countries.
Facts. The video is from another visit
André Ventura’s complaint was promptly denied by various elements of the MPLA, namely through the party’s action committee [MPLA] of Lisbon and de AGUINALDO DE OLIVEIRASecretary for the Department of Information and Advertising of the MPLA Provincial Committee in Luanda.
In response to Lusa, the Angola embassy was also perennial: “It is absolutely false that a group of Angolans came from Angola to participate in the holding of support actions ”to the official visit of President João Lourenço.
“People who decided to express their support to the President of the Republic They are all residents in the region of Lisbon”Said the press attitude, Victor Carvalho.
Lusa verifies analyzed the content of the arrival of the arrival and the page NSISA reflections and concluded that There is no evidence of those allegations. In fact, in the case of the video of the alleged “cheerleader” at Lisbon airport, it was possible to determine that The images are prior to the visit of President João Lourenço.
In the video, still available on the social networks of NSISA Reflections, you see what seems to be a Angolan group with hatsred t-shirts and yellow MPLA scarves in the Humberto Delgado airport arrivals in Lisbon, but also see each other several advertising screens whose placement dates it was possible to determine.
One of them, easily, celebrates feminin from UEFA Champions League, which took place in Lisbon on May 24.
Lusa found with two communication companies linked to the space that the Lay’s campaign was affixed between May 6 and June 19so the video is necessarily from this period.
The agency also analyzed Videos recorded in that space already in July And found that that ad I was no longer present.
In addition, consultation of MPLA social networks in Portugal allowed it to conclude that it illustrates the reception of the party’s vice president, Mara Quiosawhich visited Portugal in early June, as shown another video in which the same advertising screen and MPLA elements common to the previous video is visible :.
As for the content of the other allegations, No Portuguese authority or Angolan confirmed any indication, denunciation or investigation about this case. This is also the conclusion of the Angolan fact -verifying project, which concludes that “The allegation is deceiving because it is not supported by concrete evidence or confirmed by official or independent sources. ”
Contradictory
Lusa tried to contact the NSISA Reflections page, but got no response.
He also tried to hear the Portuguese Ministries of Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Government’s Communication Office, but it was informed that the government would not respond to the accusation of the arrival because it should not open the precedent of respond to misinformation content shared on social networks of that political force.
However, it was possible to find out that the Public Security Police did not receive any complaint about this case. “PSP has no knowledge of the alleged disappearance of more than 50 Angolan citizens in Portugal ”
“If these citizens of Angola passed the air border, it is because they would be able to do so, otherwise they would have been interceptednot being allowed to enter, ”explains the communication office of the PSP National Directorate.
Lusa also wanted to hear the Angolan government, which was only possible after several attempts.
In the written response received, the secretary of the President of the Republic for institutional communication and press matters, LUÍS FERNANDOhe stated that “what was said by André Ventura and others who were second are delusionsstatements absolutely false, fiction of the most reles”Because“ the Angolans who were alive to President João Lourenço reside all in Portugal, properly legalized. ”
In addition, he adds, “the embassy provided the Portuguese Foreign Ministry and the police Citizens List that would be focused on the main points of the agenda, as well as the photo of the costume they would use and the name and contact of the responsible associative leader ”in each initiative.
The Communication Office of the Arrives maintains the accusation and states that “he received, by reliable roads, serious and credible complaints Regarding the disappearance of Angolan citizens in the national territory, following their participation in a support event to the President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço. ”
However, it did not clarify if the arrival filed a complaint to the authorities, nor had Some information about the wrongly attributed video Upon arrival of the entourage at Lisbon Airport.
Conclusion: False
The author of the initial complaint was not available to provide clarification, nor did it disclose new information, but Lusa found that the video it released is from June and does not correspond to the alleged.
For your side, the Portuguese government and PSP are unaware of Any incident relating to the alleged disappearance of Angolan citizens in Portugal and the Angolan community in Portugal as well as the Angolan government to deny that accusation in a categorical way.
Based on the information collected, the absence of evidence and the use of a Video deceivedR, Lusa checks that The accusation is false About the disappearance of more than 50 Angolan citizens who allegedly traveled to Lisbon to support the official visit of President João Lourenço.
Ventura is special
This is not the first time André Ventura has been caught lying, disclosing false information or propagating misinformation.
In a quick search in the zap of the expression “André Ventura lie“We found several examples: Ventura about the size of his home, André Ventura in Parliament, André Ventura, says Pacheco de Amorim.
André Ventura is not the only politician caught lying. In 2024, the ZAP reported an electoral then underway. Behind only Ventura, which heads the list with more lies, comes Mariana Mortáguathat,,.
In the last legislative elections, voters have given the arrival of the express votes, which led to Parliament 60 Party Deputies -making it the second largest political formation in the hemiciclo.
Almost all politicians lie, some more, some less or by mistake. André Ventura seems to have art and the ingenuity of capitalizing with the Portuguese lies, deception, falsehood and misinformation – and turn them into votes.
