Portuguese police clear Lisbon housing protest camp, make arrests
Police made several arrests and reported minor injuries after clearing more than 100 tents from a housing protest camp.
- On Oct 25, Portuguese police cleared a housing protest camp from Lisbon's Rossio Square in the early hours of Sunday, making several arrests after warning occupants to remove more than 100 tents.
- Portugal is grappling with a 300,000-home shortfall nationwide, driving protesters to demand the government scrap a bill making evictions easier and ending rent caps on new leases.
- Left Bloc lawmaker Fabian Figueiredo called the police action "completely disproportionate," while marcher Vitor Gomes, 21, said, "We have an obligation to fight for what we believe in."
- Shortly after 2 a.m., dozens of officers with police dogs moved in on the camp after warning protesters to remove tents or face disobedience charges, with minor injuries reported.
- The Lisbon protest follows similar demonstrations in Belgium, France, Italy, and Spain, reflecting a widening European trend as rising living costs squeeze households across the continent.
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Portuguese police clear Lisbon housing protest camp, arresting 25
Portuguese police cleared a camp in central Lisbon held to protest against the country’s deepening housing crisis, baton-charging demonstrators in the early hours of Sunday and making 25 arrests. Portugal is grappling with one of Europe’s most acute home affordability crises, as prices have more than doubled since 2017 while rents for new leases have […]
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Demonstrators wounded as Portugal police clear housing protest camps
Officers have frequently moved in to dismantle the camps that have sprung up in Lisbon and Porto in recent weeks, at a time when countries across Europe are grappling with a wave of rising discontent over the cost of living. In a message on X, the police said officers had "intervened early this morning... to put an end to these illegal encampments". "Once dialogue ended, the operation led to 31 arrests for disobedience," the police added. Accord…
At about two o’clock this Sunday morning (three in the morning, Spanish peninsular time), the Public Security Police (PSP) entered the Rossio square, in the heart of Lisbon, and in the D. João I square of Porto to remove the shops that the right to housing protesters had re-assembled on Saturday, after a day of marches in several cities of the country. It is the second eviction in five days. According to the PSP official report, 31 people were a…
With dogs and dozens of officers, the police in Lisbon are clearing a protest camp against the housing shortage. Several people are arrested, there are lightly injured. The demonstrators had pitched more than 100 tents after a march with thousands of participants.
The Portuguese police intervened in the early morning of this Sunday to evict the camps that had been re-installed in Lisbon and Porto, an operation that ended with...
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LISBON (ANP/RTR) - Police in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, cleared a housing protest tent camp in the city center during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Several people were arrested, and a few were injured. A tent camp was also cleared on Tuesday. Housing shortage P...
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