Thousands protest in Lisbon against police violence
27/10/2024 6:31
Thousands of people took to the main avenue of downtown Lisbon on Saturday to protest police violence, several days after a policeman shot a Cape Verde-born Portuguese resident, triggering a wave of unrest. Rights group Vida Justa, which called the protest, changed the route to avoid clashes with supporters of the far-right anti-immigration party Chega, which held a separate smaller rally also in central Lisbon in support of the police. Violence had broken out on the multi-ethnic outskirts of the capital after Monday's shooting of Odair Moniz, a 43-year-old chef, in the Amadora suburb. Vida Justa said "violence and police impunity" must stop and people in the poorest suburbs cannot "be treated as non-citizens".
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