A 55-year-old man was arrested and hospitalized following a fire in the room where he lived in Alfragide, Amadora. He was then admitted to Caxias Prison Hospital, as he suffered from “serious psychiatric illness”.
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06/11/2026
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U55-year-old man was arrested and was admitted to Caxias Prison Hospital following a fire in a house in Alfragide, Amadora, Lisbon district.
According to a statement issued by the Judiciary Police (PJ) this Friday, the urban fire took place on August 8. The man suffers from “a serious psychiatric illness”, as explained in the note.
“From the fire crime, practiced using direct flame, resulted in the total carbonization of the entire filling and structure of the suspect's room, because it is the division of the house where the start point of combustion was identified”, read in the note.
According to PJ, the fire also resulted “damages in all divisions of the house, caused by the action of heat and the propagation and fixation of soot, which is why it was declared uninhabitable”.
The application of the preventive detention coercion measure with hospitalization was applied to this man after the arrest and subsequent presentation in the Department of Action and Criminal Investigation of Amadora.