Six protesters arrested by PSP in Porto were released

ANDm statements to journalists in the police station of PSP do Heroísmo, in Porto, the protestors' lawyer, Tiago Machado, said they were four men and two women.

Young people will be present in court on Monday when more details will be known.

“They were referred from [Praça] D. João I to here and now were the subject of notification of the procedure,” he said.

Asked whether they were accused of the crime of disobedience, he confirmed, referring only to having “indication of the factuality of what happened today”.

“They will appear in court on Monday at 2:00. And so now it is to rest and recover. [...] It was a long night” he added.

In a statement sent the essays, PSP points out that, in addition to the detainees, in Porto “an article of pyrotechnics (petard) was seized in the possession of one of the detainees, three cans of paint (refused to the police) and a package of pepper gas”.

About 200 protesters went to the PSP police station in Heroism, where at 4:20 p.m. they remained on watch.

The organization of the movement for housing in Porto updated the balance to 37 wounded, of which seven were in serious condition, and nine arrested, after the police charge to vacate the square D. João I.

He had previously advanced with 37 minor injuries and five still receiving medical attention.

According to one of the spokespersons of the campsite Catarina dos Santos, “the repetition” of the police load, which had already happened once and provoked 39 wounded, since the movement started on October 10, is already “in itself very serious”.

Catarina dos Santos also left the guarantee, when questioned whether today they would return to Praça D. João I, which “no one walks from the square until the claims are heard”.

The Special Police Unit of the PSP dispersed the protesters in Praça D. João I, in Porto, after refusing to remove the tents.

After hours of tension that involved the arrival of more police elements, dogs and altercations around the square, at 2:02 p.m. the PSP began the intervention.

The PSP today dismantled the Porto Camp for housing, leaving a trail of destruction in Praça D. João I, having removed the protesters from the site, who shouted “we will return”.

In an intervention that lasted just over 10 minutes, the Special Police Unit challenged the resistance of the protesters and advanced to the tents, destroying the camp set up in Praça D. João I.

The protesters resisted, and some were arrested by the PSP as the police force advanced with the intervention.

Shouts of resistance such as “we will return”, “the united people will never be defeated” or “fascism never again” were heard while the protesters were removed from the square, having moved to the Avenue of the Allies.

Port City Hall cars cleaned the place.

In Praça General Humberto Delgado, in front of the House of Porto, at 02:25 several hundred people concentrated, with the flags of Portugal and Porto placed at half a rod.

[News updated at 7:23 a.m.]