US EditionPortugal arrests six linked to a far-right group and seizes explosives and weapons
PORTUGAL, JUN 17 – Authorities seized explosives, 3D-printed firearms, and propaganda from six far-right extremists accused of terrorism and hate crimes linked to anti-immigrant ideology, police said.
- On Tuesday, law enforcement in Portugal detained six individuals associated with the far-right group Movimento Armilar Lusitano and confiscated explosives along with several firearms.
- The arrests followed an investigation that tracked extremist content online linked to far-right nationalist views and incitement to violence against migrants.
- Officers seized 3D-printed guns, several 3D printers, ammunition, knives, propaganda materials, and a municipal police officer was among the detainees.
- Luis Neves, director of the Judiciary Police, expressed deep concern about the rise of far-right extremist activities, noting that such incidents are occurring beyond national borders.
- The individuals will face a judge in court for preliminary hearings, during which decisions will be made regarding charges or other legal actions, reflecting increased alertness to radical far-right threats.
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The Judicial Police (PJ) has dismantled a neo-Nazi militia with a paramilitary structure and links within the State security forces. Among the six detainees, all males between 40 and 45 years of age, four remain in pre-trial detention.One of them is a Chief of the Public Security Police (PSP), identified as one of the leaders of the extremist group Armilar Lusitano.The organization, of ultra-nationalist and supremacist ideology, would have been …
They are no longer sporadic cases or small groups of people. Extreme right-wing violence has become more and more adept in Portugal, including some members of the security forces, and their attacks are becoming more and more frequent. The Judicial Police have just struck the neo-Nazi group Movimento Armilar Lusitano with the arrest on Tuesday of six people, including a Chief of the Public Security Police (PSP) stationed in the Lisbon Municipal P…
The police in Lisbon have excavated a supposedly far-right terrorist cell, and the suspects are said to have planned an attack on Parliament, and among those arrested is also a high-ranking police officer.
The Portuguese police arrested six suspected members of an extreme-right terrorist cell, and the officials also ensured explosives and weapons of special "quality and diversity".
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der Standard DESix people have been arrested in Lisbon, which is said to have planned attacks on Parliament, and a high-ranking police officer is also among the suspects.
Despite the CMTV's advance that Manuel Matias is part of the facebook group of the Lusitano Military Movement, Rita Mattias' father says he doesn't do "the least idea".
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