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More than 400 Lawyers Challenge PSP Actions at Housing Protests

An open letter signed by more than 400 lawyers accuses the police of resorting to the disproportionate use of force at housing demonstrations in Porto and Lisbon last weekend.  The

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The police spokesman, Sérgio Sousa, described that: "After the protesters moved from Dom João I Square to Allied Avenue there was this monitoring and when we were doing this monitoring the protesters will have realized that this team of four policemen to the civilian were in fact elements of the PSP, entered into confrontation, attacked at least 3 [agents] and there was a fourth police who to defend himself made passive use of the firearm".

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The police were criticized a week ago for using batons against protesters.

·Helsinki, Finland
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A week after the last police charge, the PSP again emptied D. João I Square in Porto, in the early morning of batons, tents destroyed and demonstrators asking for medical assistance. The movement counted 38 wounded, three of them serious, on a first balance. The camp attorney said that seven people were arrested.

·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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There are dozens of tents and hundreds of people occupying the squares of the capital and the Invicta. Also, the secretary-general of the PSD says that the parties must leave the selfish interests" about housing

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The Portuguese police evict the camps against the rental law in Lisbon and Porto; the unrest reaches the Euroregion Galicia-Portugal. La entrada The Portuguese police evict the camps against the rental law in Lisbon and Porto aparece primero en Moncloa.

Twenty-five people were assisted following the encampments for the right to housing in Lisbon and Porto, of which nine were transported to hospital units, revealed today to Lusaka the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM). According to INEM, in Lisbon nine people were assisted, three of whom were transported to the Hospital de São José, while in Porto there were 16 people assisted, and of these six were taken to the Hospital de Santo An…

·Funchal, Portugal
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