The Judiciary Police carried out searches at Albufeira City Council for complaints against President Rui Cristina, elected by Chega, on suspicion of crimes of racial discrimination and incitement to hatred.
Rui Cristina left the City Council without clarifying anything about which, at this point, around one in the afternoon, would have already ended at Albufeira City Hall.
It was the Attorney General’s Office that confirmed the measures, ordered by the Évora Regional Department of Investigation and Criminal Action.
Coming from outside the Algarve political context, inspectors from the Judiciary Police entered the municipality at around 10 am. They arrived with orders to seize computers.
Under investigation is, at least, what the mayor elected by Chega said at the City Council, on November 26, when he spoke about the recipients of a social housing project.
The municipal deputy’s complaint is one of two received by the Public Prosecutor’s Office that suggest crimes of racial discrimination and incitement to hatred. The answer came, in the afternoon, from the president of Chega himself.
Almost at the same time, the mayor, who did not want to answer questions, expressed anger on social media.
It is not the first complaint from the opposition municipal deputy. He also took to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the case of the mayor’s sister, hired as an advisor to the chamber that Rui Cristina presides over.
The mayor responded by filing a lawsuit for aggravated defamation against the social-democratic municipal deputy.
