“I liked to burst with everything to the bomb.” Former member of the FP-25 on the PS lists in Setúbal

He was arrested, was convicted of attempted murder and is a teacher. Now, fight for a mandate in the Setúbal Chamber on behalf of the PS, an unprecedented situation among the socialists.

António Manuel Baptista Dias is the number 5 of the PS for the Setúbal City Council. But the 67 -year -old high school teacher has been criticized due to his political involvement in the past.

According to the, António Manuel Baptista Dias was a member of the FP-25, terrorist group created after the April Revolution.

“The last crime this gentleman committed was the death of agent Álvaro Militão. It was in 1987, more than 12 years after April 25th. There was neither need here nor revolutionary euphoria, nor anything that looks like. We had already entered the European Community, we were a consolidated democracy, ”says the same newspaper Manuel Castelo-Branco, son of a victim of the armed group.

“It’s a bleaching of what was the past of this gentleman, As if nothing had happened, ”comments Gaspar Castelo-Branco’s son, director of prison services murdered by the FP-25.

The former member of the group was arrested more than once and was even convicted of the attempted murder of a PSP agent. In the Observer Radio program “And the winner is”, expert Nuno Gonçalo Poças points out that the current PS local candidate was “involved in several of the biggest robberies” of the FP-25, and “was not only a leader, but a very peculiar operational. I liked to burst with everything to the bomb“.

The situation, unlike the Left Block, which has already presented in the past FP-23 candidates, is unprecedented in the PS. But António Manuel Baptista Dias had already been a socialist candidate to the Board of São Sebastião. He was even honored with a gold medal of the culture category by the municipality of Setúbal.

Commentator Miguel Morgado accused the PS of “Sponsor the radicalization of policy”With the presentation of this candidate.