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In a powerful reflection, Manuel Alegre's poem highlights the dangers of political alliances with extremist groups. The article discusses the troubling actions of a Chega member who allegedly sought votes and protection from a group known for its Nazi and fascist ideology. It condemns the normalization of such alliances in politics, emphasizing the need to resist and stand against these ideologies in the name of equality and justice.
The neo-Nazi's lawyer says he is 'locked up 22 hours a day in an eight-square-metre cell' and confirmed he will appeal.
Raquel Machado Faísca says the link to Mário Machado exists because he 'is the father of her youngest daughter.' The defendant claims that the Portuguese justice system has been 'unfair' to her former partner.
Group 1143 was preparing to carry out training with military-grade weapons abroad this coming February.
Renata Cambra, the woman whose actions led to Mário Machado's arrest, was targeted with fresh death and rape threats by members of the neo‑Nazi group.
The magistrate suspects that the 33 neo-Nazis detained by the PJ (Portugal's Criminal Police) “will not abandon that same ideology.” A PSP officer from the group was ultimately not charged with a hate crime, unlike an Air Force serviceman. Mário Machado's lawyer has backtracked and will not request the judge's recusal.
One of the side effects of society's prolonged exposure to extremist phenomena is normalisation. After a while nothing shocks us any more; everything becomes relative and there is always a good explanation, a context, some event in history that helps frame what is happening today. As if the world, after all, neither leapt nor progressed, but were condemned to a kind of perpetual sentence — that of moral misery.
It is highly revealing of the country's current state that Operação Irmandade did not provoke the appropriate public outrage. Opinion by Amílcar Correia.
See the answer in the video. Polígrafo TVI (from the same group as CNN Portugal) is a fact-checking programme about current affairs.
To journalists, Ventura insisted that he is heading a 'people's candidacy against the system's candidacy', accusing Seguro of avoiding street campaigning.
The MP said he exchanged political views, heard patriotic anthems and that women shared rissoles. He rejects any association with 1143.
The concerted raid on suspected Neo Nazis last week essentially ‘decapitated’ the leadership of the notorious Group 1143. The long-term ‘leader of the group’, former skinhead Mário Machado, has seen The post PJ national director receives “threats and insults” following Neo Nazi raid appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Mário Machado's group may have burst the bubbles in which these phenomena fester, allowing them to infect the heart of the system, reaching teenagers and adults, white- and blue-collar workers. Editorial by Pedro Candeias
Paulo Dias, a security specialist, analyses the growth of groups such as 1143, dismantled this week by the Judicial Police (PJ).
Commentary from Gustavo Silva, a lawyer and former inspector of the Judicial Police, on the case of the neo‑Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the PJ. Five of the 37 alleged members will await trial in pre‑trial detention.
Twenty-nine others were released and required to make periodic appearances. Three were placed under an identity and residence order.
Five of the 37 alleged members of neo‑Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the Polícia Judiciária (PJ), will await the progress of the investigation in pre-trial detention, the Central Criminal Investigation Court decided on Saturday. The remaining 32 defendants were released, 29 of whom are required to report weekly to the police station, and three only with a term of ...
The suspects are charged with a range of crimes, including discrimination and incitement to violence and hatred.
Five of the 37 alleged members of neo-Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the Judicial Police (PJ), will await the progress of the investigation in pre-trial detention, the Central Criminal Investigation Court decided on Saturday.
Experts warn that the growing acceptance of exclusionary language and rhetoric targeting minorities or outsiders will influence extremist movements’ development, recruitment and visibility in the coming five to ten years.
The leader of Chega could not even say, 'I do not like the ideas of 1143.' The tally from the start of the interview on RTP: 12 silences and one lie. Opinion piece by Bárbara Reis.
Mário Machado's lawyer argued that possessing neo‑Nazi material is not a crime, saying “it is neo‑Nazi organisations that are criminal”, and that the case concerns a demonstration that never took place and had already been cancelled.
To fight politically, relentlessly, within the rules of democracy, so that extremism, disinformation, hatred, the basest human sentiments and ill-considered protest do not prevail.
Seguro says he is aiming to finish first in the first round to prevent the so-called 'extremist' candidate, notably André Ventura, from reaching the run-off. He has raised his target from simply qualifying for the second round to topping it, reframing the race as a showdown between 'democrats' and 'extremism' and attempting to reshape voter choice. The move comes as a PS‑backed candidate also appears well placed to contest the presidency, increasing the strategic importance of securing first place in round one.
