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A 28-year-old man had been wanted for an aggravated murder committed in 2022 in Northern Ireland.
A chief inspector admitted to firing while chasing a group of young people who were allegedly peering into his garden.
The Polícia Judiciária team investigating the death of Portuguese national Pedro Ferraz in Maputo will remain in Mozambique until the end of the week.
The profile of members of group 1143 has changed and there are at least a dozen such groups active. Six current or former Chega members were among those detained in the Judicial Police's latest operation.
Uncertainty over the death of Portuguese banker Pedro Ferraz Correia dos Reis, in Maputo, Mozambique, last week has led the government to send a team (including elements of PJ judicial The post PJ team travels to Mozambique to ‘accompany’ investigation into death of Portuguese banker appeared first on Portugal Resident.
A Judicial Police (PJ) team has been set up to work exclusively on alleged corruption cases in Madeira. This comes two years after the major police operation that led to the fall of the regional government.
Pedro Ferraz, aged 56, was found dead in a hotel in Maputo on Monday.
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.
The suspected corruption case that led to the fall of the Regional Government of Madeira in 2024 has a team of Judicial Police (PJ) inspectors dedicated exclusively to the three ongoing inquiries, the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) said.
There are three investigations under way.
A total of 3,258 people applied to the Judicial Police (PJ)'s latest inspector recruitment, for which 150 vacancies were available. It is the highest number of applications in the past two years.
The leader of the PS parliamentary group accuses the far-right party of creating 'smoke screens'. Four Chega activists are among the 37 suspects detained in a PJ (Judicial Police) operation on Tuesday.
The operation involved three separate units of the Judicial Police. The trafficking group was based in Amadora.
A man wanted by German authorities for assaulting and raping a woman on three occasions in 2023 has been detained by Portugal’s Judicial Police in Porto. He will be presented to the Porto Court of Appeal as Portuguese authorities consider the German request and possible extradition; under the charges he could face up to 15 years’ imprisonment. The arrest underscores cross‑border cooperation in serious sexual‑violence cases and the next legal steps will determine whether he is surrendered to Germany or prosecuted in Portugal.
There are 37 detainees suspected of links to the far-right, and Observador has learned that they are all already in Lisbon. Also, the United States plans to reduce its participation in NATO's structure.
According to the Judicial Police (PJ), those arrested were spreading a neo‑Nazi ideology 'inherent to National Socialist culture and to a radical and violent far right', and acted out of racist and xenophobic motives.
The Counterterrorism Unit of the Judicial Police is conducting a major operation to dismantle a far-right criminal organisation linked to acts of discrimination and incitement to hatred. Gustavo Silva, a commentator for CNN Portugal, analyses what is behind it.
In total there were 65 searches and 37 arrests from north to south of the country in this PJ (Portuguese Judicial Police) operation, which included searches of the cell of Mário Machado, leader of the neo-Nazi group 1143.
Searches of Mário Machado's cell led to the seizure of material described as “relevant” to the Judicial Police's investigation. The operation was carried out as a preventative measure to avoid further deaths caused by neo-Nazi groups.
Luís Neves warned that all 'crimes of a politically motivated nature' will be dealt with.
A senior reporter for CM and CMTV explains the Judicial Police’s major operation against extremist group 1143, which was led by Mário Machado.
A further 15 individuals were formally named as suspects and 65 searches, both at residences and elsewhere, were carried out.
Colonel Francisco Rodrigues, president of OSCOT, says that fully dismantling groups like 1143 is very difficult and predicts that the Judicial Police operation will inflict heavy losses.
Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ) has launched a first-of-its-kind campaign to tackle online radicalisation among young people, aiming to alert schools and families to warning signs, raise awareness, prevent recruitment and disrupt extremist influence across digital platforms. The initiative is framed as a preventive, educational and investigative effort combining outreach to educators and parents with targeted policing online. Separately, The Guardian reports heightened international tensions as former US President Trump is reported to be considering military options against Iran following a violent crackdown, underscoring how domestic efforts to shield youth from radicalisation sit alongside broader geopolitical risks.
