André Ventura, president of the arrival, and the party deputy, Rita Matias.
Open Inquiry into the disclosure of names of immigrant children enrolled in a school in Lisbon. Leader of the arrival read the list of names in the Assembly of the Republic and Rita Matias released them in a video online.
The prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday the opening of an inquiry to the president of arrival, André Ventura and the party deputy Rita Matiasabout the disclosure of names of immigrant children enrolled in a school in Lisbon.
In an answer sent to Lusa, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said that “the establishment of an inquiry related to the matter is confirmed.”
André Ventura mentioned the list of names in the Assembly of the Republic, of allegedly immigrant children, after Rita Matias released the names in a video shared on social networks.
“These gentlemen are zero Portuguese”André Ventura said, in the face of the applause standing on his bench, considering that the mentioned immigrant children have passed the Portuguese nationality children on the list to get a place in the public school.
The young deputy arrives later that arrives did not check if the names of the children who read and reread were real.
“The arrival received the list. Did not make a major confirmation, we did not see which school was ”said Rita Matias in. “By the way, I was surprised to realize that the extreme left is that it was the work of going to see the school, to publicize the video ‘N’ times. If they had not done so much, the video went absolutely normal, as so many videos we publish daily.”
Before, the deputy had guaranteed in the said, “No, I was not mistaken. It’s really a list of a Portuguese school. How many people here did not get a place for their children?” Asks the deputy.
Following the disclosure of the list, associative leaders, political parties and citizens publicly announced that they would file a complaint against the fact that it has released names of foreign origin of children who attend a Portuguese school.
Regarding this disclosure, and after several complaints, the National Data Protection Commission announced on July 16 that it opened a process of investigations. The body chaired by Paula Meira Lourenço will evaluate the case, and if the complaints are given, for violation of the General Data Protection Scheme (RGPD), the targets may have to pay a fine.
