Ten tents have been set up since 22:30 in Praça D. João I, Porto, fulfilling the approved one about an hour earlier in the popular assembly, continuing without being visible the presence of the police in the vicinity.
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01/11/2026
by
Lusa
Dez tents are since 22:30 set up in Praça D. João I, Porto, fulfilling the approved about an hour earlier in the popular assembly, continuing without being visible the presence of police in the vicinity.
In the meeting of the movement for housing with the approximately 2,500 people present in the square, it was said that the PSP will not intervene next morning, a situation that can only be seen after 12:30, the deadline for the demonstrations.
On site there remain a large hundreds of people, since, with the advance of the hour and the drop of the temperature, the exit of most of those who, since 17:00, filled the square of the camp has rushed.
PSP dispersed early today the camped by the right to housing in Rossio, in Lisbon, and in Praça D. João I, in Porto, removing about 100 tents. The intervention culminated in police charges and throwing objects, causing more than two dozen wounded between demonstrators and police.
The police action motivated a request for clarification from the President of the Republic to 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.
In the camps, which began on October 10th, protesters demand the reversal of the new rental law, the end of demolitions and evictions without housing alternative, a brake on housing purchase by real estate funds, the increase in public housing, the recovery of vacant buildings for housing purposes and “truely accessible” ceilings to income.