Hate crimes grew by 6% in 2025 in Portugal.
The Annual Internal Security Report (RASI) was released this Tuesday, which confirmed the increased presence of Portuguese people in neo-Nazi and satanic online groups.
As the newspaper details, the new members of this type of hate-incentivizing groups are minors and young adults.
In the chapter dedicated to global threats to internal security, there are references to “far-right terrorism”which highlights the dismantling of the leadership of a Portuguese organization. According to the morning man, this appears to be a reference to .
“There has been an increase in the presence of Portuguese users, especially minors and young adults, in online groups based on accelerationist and neo-nazinational and transnational scope, and in satanic, incel and nihilist groups or post-ideological, which glorify violence and which, in many cases, are also related to the extreme right”, it reads.
“Young right-wing extremists were also detected sharing propaganda about Islamist terrorism on social media”.
Violent crimes that rose the most in 2025
Rape, sexual extortion, homicides and robberies in goldsmiths violent and serious crimes rose the most in 2025 compared to 2024.
Violent crime fell 1.6% last year compared to 2024, with 14,149 registered crimes, while the general crime rose 31.1%in a total of 365,802 participations.
In violent and serious crime, the crimes that rose the most were jewelry store robberies (+26.3%), resistance [às autoridades] and coercion against an employee (+15.8%), extortion (+12.7%) and sexual extortion (+6.8%).
O rape crime (+6.4%) maintains the growth trend and reached in 2025 “the highest value in the last decade”says the report, which also highlights the 10.1% increase in completed voluntary homicide and 1.25% of the crime of robbery, kidnapping and hostage taking.
Last year, there were 98 homicidesnine more than in 2024, and more than half occurred in a relational context, 28% in a neighbor context, 15% family and 13% marital.
Among violent and serious crimes, the document reports drops in robberies at banks or other credit establishments (-50%), robberies at gas stations (-33.8%), robberies on public transport (-18.5%) and home robberies (-15.5%).
According to RASI, violent and serious crime fell in Lisbon (-3.4%) and Porto (-8.4%) and had the biggest increases in the districts of Braga (+11.7%) and Leiria (+11.4%).
Last year, general crime recorded a greater increase in the districts of Coimbra and Leiria, both with increases of more than 10%, with increases of close to 4% also occurring in the districts of Lisbon and Porto.
In relation to falls, the document points to the Autonomous Region of the Azores (-8.8%) and Portalegre (-4.7%).
