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".