The 55 protesters for the right to housing arrested a week ago in Rossio, Lisbon, will appear today before the Public Prosecutor to learn what direction the process will take.
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27/10/2026
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Lusa
O55 protesters for the right to housing detained a week ago in Rossio, Lisbon, will appear today before the Public Prosecutor to know what direction the process will take.
The proceedings take place from 10 a.m. at the Lisbon Justice Campus and, according to the Attorney General's Office, the defendants may have the case provisionally suspended, if they so agree, or be referred for trial in special summary proceedings.
The protesters are suspected of disobedience, for allegedly resisting when, on October 20, the PSP withdrew the tents of the Lisbon Camp of Praça D. Pedro IV, commonly known as Rossio.
The crime is punishable in its various modalities with a maximum of two years in prison or 240 days in fine.
The camped by the right to housing began on October 10, in Porto, and then extended to Lisbon, having originated several police interventions using force, of which resulted dozens wounded and detained.
The protesters have invoked the constitutional right to the demonstration so as not to comply with the orders of removal of tents or dispersion given by the PSP, which, in turn, bases its action in a decree-law of 1974.
The Lisbon Camp movement scheduled for 10:00 today, at the Lisbon Campus of Justice, a vigil to support 55 people arrested a week ago in Rossio and released on the same day.
Towards the end of the afternoon, at 6:30 p.m., the Casa para Viver platform called for a concentration in front of the Assembly of the Republic in protest for “police violence” against those camped by the Lisbon and Porto housing on Sunday morning.
On this day when the general vote on the proposal of the State Budget for 2027 begins, the movement thus intends to challenge the police charge that, in its accounts, made “about 60 wounded, some of them serious”, and remember that “whoever was in the camps committed no crime – was exercising a constitutional right, the right to demonstrate, to defend another constitutional right, the right to housing”.
According to the platform, “choosing the dawn to launch dogs and carrying the batonada on people who manifested peacefully is a political decision”, which “shows that this government prefers to repress those who denounce the housing crisis to solve the crisis itself”.
The Lisbon Camp has already joined the initiative, calling for its usual popular assembly to be set up next to the parliament: “It is camped in parliament! Popular power of Rossio to Saint Benedict!”.