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Police in Portugal intervened to dismantle housing protest camps and made arrests across major cities including Lisbon and Porto. The actions followed nationwide demonstrations that drew thousands to the streets to protest Portugal's worsening housing crisis.
Over 300 housing rights protesters in Lisbon voted to dismantle their tents in Rossio square and sleep outdoors to continue their demonstration under agreed conditions.
Portuguese police detained 55 people and dismantled housing rights encampments in Lisbon and Porto following tensions over public space use. While the government commended the Public Security Police for prioritizing dialogue before intervening, protesters reported aggression and injuries amid ongoing demonstrations against the cost of living and housing crisis.
Lisbon police have warned housing rights protesters that their camp at Rossio square is unauthorised and must be cleared, while hoping to resolve the standoff without force. Despite the dispersal deadline passing, demonstrators formed human chains to protect their tents, maintaining their protest against current housing policies amid fears of an eviction similar to that in Porto.
The Casa Para Viver platform has submitted an open letter to the Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, formally demanding a reduction in rental costs amidst the ongoing national housing crisis.
Six individuals were arrested by the PSP following violent clashes near the Assembly of the Republic after a general strike, with charges including resisting arrest and property damage, while the CGTP union distanced itself from the incidents.
Cultural mediators from the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) are striking at the Government headquarters in Lisbon to demand permanent employment status and salary equality, protesting the ministry's reliance on precarious labor.
The Portuguese Federation for Life is demanding that a Molotov cocktail attack on their recent March for Life be prosecuted as an act of terrorism, following the arrest of a suspect linked to an anarchist group.
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Dozens of PSP police officers are still in the vicinity of Praça Dom João I in Porto and Rossio Square in Lisbon. Additionally, FC Porto defeated Gil Vicente 1-0.
Thousands protested in Lisbon for the right to housing, from Marquês to Rossio. Led by 98-year-old Alfredo, the protest ended with tents being set up and a police warning regarding civil disobedience.
Dozens of police officers are currently surrounding Rossio Square and Dom João I Square. Furthermore, in Barcelona, protesters smashed shop windows and vandalised the city.
The authorities' orders at this hour are that people may stay, but the tents must be removed now. Additionally, the leader of the Socialist Party says he stands in solidarity with the protesters.
According to RTP journalists on the ground, hundreds of officers make up the contingent preparing to intervene at Rossio.
Protest camps remain in place in Porto and Lisbon, disregarding the warnings issued by the Public Security Police (PSP).
The Lisbon encampment for the right to housing counted a total of 130 tents set up in Rossio Square around 10:00 PM, where 'about 300 people' intend to sleep from this Saturday night to Sunday. The headcount of people planning to sleep in the tents was conducted during a meeting of delegates from the affinity groups.
Around 25,000 people marched from Marquês de Pombal to Rossio. These are the messages they carried in their hands.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez accuses far-left groups of seeking confrontations with the police. Additionally, there are tents set up in Rossio, Lisbon. The protest in Porto is also continuing.
Protesters set up tents again in Rossio following this Saturday's demonstration
Housing protests spread across the country, but it was in Lisbon and Porto that the largest number of demonstrators gathered. In Lisbon, tents were set up again at the end of the protests.
Mass demonstrations took place across several European countries, including Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, and Turkey.
Demonstrators have begun assembling tents in the Rossio square.
Thousands of protesters for the right to housing have occupied the entire Rossio Square in Lisbon since about 18:30 today and have begun setting up tents behind the statue of D. Pedro IV.
The Lisbon encampment is calling for the reversal of the tenancy law, an end to demolitions and evictions without alternative housing, and a stop to the acquisition of residential property by real estate investment funds.
Thousands of people of all ages occupied Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon this afternoon, in a protest led by a banner calling for a general strike on housing.
Thousands of people marched down Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon in a demonstration for the right to housing.
Protests returned to Lisbon in response to the demonstration called by the Acampada movement.
Housing campaigners are taking to the streets of Lisbon today (Saturday, October 24), marching from Marquês de Pombal to Rossio Square to demand urgent measures to tackle Portugal’s worsening housing The post Housing protests continue as demonstrators march through Lisbon appeared first on Portugal Resident.
CNN Portugal reporter Luísa Saragoça spoke with João Ferreira, a Lisbon City Councillor for the PCP, who is attending the protest for the right to housing currently moving down Avenida da Liberdade.
