Protesters decide to keep the protest in Lisbon

Cerca of a hundred protesters decided today in a popular assembly to maintain the protest for the housing now taking place in Praça da Figueira and next to Rossio, in Lisbon.

In a popular assembly, the various actors who joined in front of the police cordon, positioned on Rua do Amparo, between the squares of Rossio and Figueira, in the center of Lisbon, decided to maintain the protest and return.

Participants of the popular assembly said they wanted to recover the belongings that are being removed from the camp of Rossio Square and promised to return “today and in the coming days”.

The demonstrators maintain that there were “about 30 wounded and detained” during police intervention.

At least one lawyer is present, providing support to protesters and drawing up a list of alleged detainees and wounded.

Police remain in Lisbon downtown preventing access to Praça do Rossio, both pedestrians and cars.

Meanwhile, protesters are shouting slogans against the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and in favour of the fight for the right to housing.

“Below Montenegro, which will fall” and “Long live the camp to resist,” protesters shout this morning.

According to images transmitted by televisions, just before 06:00, the PSP gave an ultimatum to the present, demanding the end of the Camp, in an operation launched simultaneously with another against the camp in Porto.

The protesters first formed a human cordon to delay the intervention of the PSP, but the Intervention Corps advanced against the group and held several arrests, with some activists accusing police officers of aggression.

The Camp of Lisbon, with the motto “Can’t you? Then build your tent!”, I had decided this morning to maintain the protest against living conditions and the crisis in the housing, although the police “solicited the way out to avoid a coercive retreat”.

On the other hand, the group that was a week ago camped in Praça D. João I, in Porto, in protest for the lack of housing, decided this morning to dismantle the camp in the face of the threat of a police intervention.