Luís Neves, the Government’s courageous “pop star”

Description by Carlos Rodrigues. João Fernando Ramos, on the other hand, feels “rested” to have a minister like this.

Reports of alleged torture and rape of detainees in Lisbon police stations have shaken the Public Security Police (PSP). This Tuesday, more.

Luis Neves, Minister of Internal Administration, took advantage of the day of these arrests to reinforce two ideas: these are isolated cases and whoever is found guilty will be expelled.

“This culture does not exist in the police, there is no evidence of similar behavior in other police stations”.

“The right place is expulsion. Intentional behavior, which jeopardizes human dignity, from a disciplinary point of view will have only one path”, commented the minister.

“Brave”

João Fernando Ramos commented that he was “particularly shocked” by this matter. “This makes us think again about what is happening on some fringes of the police force.”

The journalist asks “why the homeless, why the unprotected, why foreigners?”

But, in reacting to this case, look at a Minister of Internal Affairs “brave”, which “made its appearance” on television, highlighting that this is a “last straw” among the police – although the investigation must go “very far”.

Rejecting the criticisms of André Ventura, who said that this minister “seems to almost make a big deal out of these actions against the police”, João feels “rested” for having a minister like that, with “courage”, who wants to “clean the house and does not persecute police officers.”

João Fernando Ramos speaks of “an example to be followed” and highlights that what was happening within the PSP “was stopped by a serious investigation”.

“Pop star”

Still about the same minister, Carlos Rodrigues goes further and says that Luís Neves is “the true star of the second Government of Montenegro, which ‘pop star’ to spread energy, ideas and determination in very sensitive areas”.

This in a government that had no outstanding ministers – perhaps with one temporary exception: the Minister of the Environment, who was highly praised amid the storms at the beginning of this year.

But now, in the midst of the “true desert” around Luís Montenegro, the current Government “has become a ‘one-man show’”, wrote in the editorial general director of Medialivre.

“The new Minister of Internal Affairs everything dried up around you in a few weeks.”

Com examples: “From the fight against crime in big cities to the plans against death on the roads and the return of the Traffic Brigade, from the “zero tolerance” of yesterday (Tuesday), in the PSP, to the plans to reformulate Civil Protection, Luís Neves transformed the area of ​​Internal Administration into one of the areas of affirmation of the AD, when, until recently, it caused tremendous wear and tear”, he explains.

And there is also a message about André Ventura: when the leader of Chega “is quick to attack Luís Neves, as he did regarding the statements about the police officers from the Rato police station who were detained, he is delimiting a vital space that has been his in recent years, and which the new minister is beginning to threaten”.