Penafiel councillor bought with 18 football tickets
Adolfo Amílcar favoured an advertising company that could help him in future elections for seven years.

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Adolfo Amílcar favoured an advertising company that could help him in future elections for seven years.

The defendant allegedly illegally favoured a company in advertising licensing between 2014 and 2020. In exchange, he received access to matches and a luxury box valued at 4,788 euros.

The Penafiel Criminal Investigation Court has decided to bring an ex-councillor of the local municipality to trial for allegedly favouring a commercial company in exchange for 18 football match tickets.

The alert was raised at 3:03 PM. The victim was pulled from the river in cardiorespiratory arrest. Divers were dispatched to search for other possible victims.

Divers were deployed to try and find any other potential victims inside the crashed vehicle.

Penafiel becomes the first municipality in Portugal to reduce the Municipal Urbanisation Fee to 1 euro.

In Portugal to participate in the Escritaria literary festival, which runs until Sunday in Penafiel, Roger Waters performed a new version of 'Comfortably Numb' alongside Palestinian artist Mona Miari

In Penafiel to participate in the Escritaria literary festival, the former Pink Floyd member addressed the wave of protests in Europe, the elections in Brazil, and one of his main causes, the fight for a free Palestine.
Roger Waters will perform this Saturday alongside Mona Miari, who invited him for a concert in honour of Luís Represas at Escritaria, a literary festival in Penafiel.

In an interview with Lusa, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters claims that the wave of protests across Europe shows the continent is “on fire” because people are tired of the governing elite. Speaking alongside Palestinian artist Mona Miari ahead of their performance at the Escritaria literary festival in Penafiel, Waters calls for a rebirth of the world where empathy prevails over profit, while Miari highlights the global fight for freedom and the importance of continued activism in the face of injustice.
The Escritaria Festival, in Penafiel, celebrates Timorese writer Luís Cardoso in this edition. The fight for democracy and resistance are the main themes of the programme.

The singer was going to take the stage at the Penafiel literary festival, but illness forces her to be absent.

Penafiel Court convicted nine people and two companies for a scheme that yielded more than one million euros.

The musician Roger Waters will perform in Portugal, featuring a special rendition of the song “Comfortably Numb” as a tribute to the artist Luís Represas.
The Penafiel Court sentenced nine people and two companies for a scheme that yielded over one million euros.

The former Pink Floyd member will participate this Saturday in a 'talk-concert' titled 'Luís Represas, a voice for Timor', part of the Escritaria literary festival taking place in Penafiel. The event also features Palestinian artist Mona Miari, with whom Waters recently recorded a new version of 'Comfortably Numb'.

From refugees to Portuguese students in Armenia and Eswatini, the UWC network brings together princesses and scholarship recipients in 18 colleges around the world, in an experience where “financial status should never be an obstacle”.

The events took place between 2012 and 2014 and relate to the simulation of real estate acquisitions in nine insolvency proceedings in which the main defendant acted as an insolvency administrator.

The Porto Regional Attorney General's Office reports that the events occurred between 2012 and 2014 and are related to the simulated acquisition of properties in nine insolvency cases.

The Escritaria Festival will take place until Sunday in Penafiel. Over the next few days, the literary festival will bring together writers, as well as journalists, musicians, politicians, and visual artists. This year, the honoree is the Timorese writer Luís Cardoso.
The statement highlights the importance of Portugal playing an active role from the outset in defining the strategic direction and policy decisions for the future of the European Union.

The festival kicks off with the performance 'Desver', by Joana Craveiro and Teatro do Vestido, which is 'centered on the memories of Palestine'. The show begins at 9:30 pm this Tuesday at Ponto C.

The winery Aveleda has created a new technology in Portugal that uses AI to accurately classify vine varieties.

'Margins of Memory' is a major feature report broadcast this Thursday, after the main news programme, on RTP1.

The events took place between 2008 and 2012 and relate to fictitious machinery sales operations.

Businessmen linked to the paper processing and food products industry carried out fictitious sales operations of machinery to intermediaries, who then resold them to financial institutions.

The 19th edition of the Escritaria literary festival in Penafiel honours Timorese writer Luís Cardoso between the 20th and 25th of this month and includes a tribute to Luís Represas, crossing memories of Timor with the Palestinian cause.

An exploration of a deserted location in Portugal that is open to the public at no cost.

The PJ (Judiciary Police) was called to the scene.

From the Escritaria festival to community rock opera, including performances and international concerts, Ponto C in Penafiel presents its programme for the final quarter.
