Camp of Lisbon cancels going to the Courtyard of the Quintinhas

Oprotesters of the Lisbon Camp for Housing cancelled today the trip they had foreseen, on Thursday, to the Court of Quintinhas for having been reached an agreement between the municipality and residents who had eviction orders.

The information was given at today's popular assembly in square D. Pedro IV, where about 60 tents are set up.

“We are no longer going because a commitment has been reached with the residents,” said the camp officials.

Thus, on Thursday it will be the residents to be in Rossio, announced, information received with shouts of “the united people will never be overcome”.

The trip to the Patio das Quintinhas, in the neighborhood of Beato, in Lisbon, had been decided at the popular assembly on Monday, following the recent eviction order received by more than 100 people living in a building in that area.

Following an executive process by AC Rodrigues, Construction and Investments S.A., the building was sold and those 30 families had been given 10 days to leave their homes.

Between demonstrations and so-called camps, the current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated concentrations in other cities.

The intervention of the PSP to disperse the camps and remove the tents in Rossio, in Lisbon, and in Praça D. João I, in Porto, culminated in police loads and throwing objects, causing more than two dozen wounded between protesters and police.

The police action motivated a request for clarification from the President of the Republic, António José Seguro, the Government and the Ombudsman, and the announcement of a criminal complaint, by a lawyer, for abuse of power against the Minister of the Internal Administration and the director of the PSP.

The protesters demand, among other things, the reversal of the new rental law, a stop to housing purchase by real estate funds and “truely accessible” roofs to income.