Montenegro “can’t quietly shoot policemen at citizens”

O secretary-General of the Socialist Party (PS) today demanded a “full clarification” of the Prime Minister on the police response to the demonstrations at dawn by the right to housing, arguing that the exit to the problem “is political, never police”.

“ The way out of this crisis is political. The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, is the government's first and foremost responsible and must take responsibility. With his silence, he cannot continue to shoot police against citizens and policemen,” said José Luís Carneiro at a press conference called following the episodes of violence in the demonstrations last night.

Stressing that “any restriction of the right of demonstration must comply with the principles of necessity, adequacy and proportionality”, the Secretary-General of the Socialists complained “a thorough clarification” of Montenegro on what led to a “use of force” apparently “disproportioned” by the police forces.

The police dispersed this morning, at batonada, the demonstrations for the right to housing, in two actions simultaneously in Lisbon and Porto, after more than two hours of tension and unaccepted dispersion orders, to remove the tents mounted by protesters by the right to housing

According to the PSP, there are seven wounded and 31 detained for disobedience, however, in a statement published on social networks, the Lisbon Camp, states that the assistance of dozens of wounded.

“ Early today, October 25, dozens of protesters were brutally assaulted by the intervention police. Of these, more than 20 went to the Hospital of São José and many others were assisted on site by the care team of the Campada ", reads in the post of Instagram.