“Prevention”. Three young people identified by PSP in Colombo store

Tyoung people were identified by the Public Security Police (PSP), at the end of Saturday afternoon, inside a store at Colombo Shopping Centre, in Lisbon.

Second confirmed News to Minutes with Commissioner Ana Carvalho, the authority was triggered due to the presence of young people to perform a direct on social networks, on the day that there were several appeals for the realization of an alleged “rebellion” in various commercial centers of the capital. 

The warning was given at 6:17 p.m., however, “nothing was found” related to the “rebellion” and the three young people, all of them older, were identified because of “prevention”.

It should be noted that Columbus Shopping Center had, on Saturday, a strengthening PSP policing at the request of the management of the establishment itself, following news and appeals on social networks for an alleged “rebellion”.

Several police officers attended the shopping center in Benfica, after PSP reported during the afternoon that it was the monitor calls for an alleged “rebellion” for saturday in various shopping centers the city of Lisbon, including that space, revealing that there were spaces that asked for reinforcement of agents.

However, official source of Colombo Center told Lusa, in writing, that “it has knowledge of the contents to circulate on social networks, the subject being given to the competent authorities for investigation and action”.

Previously, the source of the PSP had already told Lusa that, following appeals to an alleged “rebellion” circulating on social networks, there were shopping centers in the city of Lisbon that requested the reinforcement of PSP agents who are usually ensuring the safety in paid service, commonly known as a gratified service, which is provided by agents outside their normal working hours, at the request of public or private entities.

Without any concrete data on the reinforcement request and for which shopping centres, the same source indicated that a special PSP device was not allocated to respond to this situation, but the police are attentive and monitoring and, if called to any occurrence, will intervene.

In the last week they went viral on social networks and were news calls and posters about an alleged “rebellion” at Colombo Center, called for October 31, at 17:30, aiming at “invasion” and looting stores, such as JD Sports, and the “vandalization” of that commercial space.

The theme gained prominence with the complaints made by several accounts of leaders of the Aquimá party and far-right groups, who amplified the alleged appeals to rebellion that would be circulating in the TikTok and in closed networks as groups of WhatsApp.

Lusa Verifies, a fact check service of the Lusa news agency, analyzed dozens of publications and assessed that it is “True, but...”, since several of these publications were made by young content creators only to generate clicks, which does not mean that some kind of contempt cannot actually occur.