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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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
Five alleged members of neo-Nazi group 1143 are being held in pre-trial detention and another 32 were released, although 29 of them must report weekly to the police station. Among those detained are individuals who assaulted two immigrants at the Aveiras service station in October.
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.
The court imposed a cumulative prison term of four years on the neo‑Nazi ringleader. Parole has been postponed.
Home News Chega militants arrested for participation in neo-Nazi group Chega militants arrested for participation in neo-Nazi group According to Jornal de Notícias (JN), three Chega militants were part of the 1143 group.
The Judiciary Police has in its possession information indicating that the neo‑Nazi group 1143 was preparing to try to provoke a race war. On Expresso da Manhã, Paulo Baldaia speaks with the journalists who reported this story in Expresso, Hugo Franco and Rui Gustavo.
The 37 people detained on suspicion of belonging to the neo-Nazi group 1143 have begun to be questioned. Among the defendants is a former Socialist Party activist.
A PSP officer, promoted in 2017, was a delegate to Chega's sixth national convention. The party's national leadership is awaiting notification about the reasons for the detention, which it says it is unaware of.
The 32 men and five women are beginning to be questioned at the Lisbon Central Criminal Court.
During a parliamentary debate about the cases at the Rato police station and the alleged involvement of a PSP officer in the neo-Nazi group 1143, the minister rejected that abuses by police are systemic but acknowledged a negative trend.
The PS parliamentary group's deputy cited reports about the “involvement of the leader or of the main figure among those detained in sharing information and associating with the movement.”
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) alleges that the neo-Nazi group 1143, dismantled on Tuesday by the Judicial Police (PJ), was preparing actions that insulted the Prophet Muhammad in order to provoke negative reactions from the Muslim community.
The remarks were made in connection with the arrests linked to the neo‑Nazi group 1143.
The 37 people detained by the Judiciary Police as part of Operation Irmandade continued to be questioned on Thursday at the Lisbon Court of Criminal Investigation.
The mother of 78-year-old Mário Machado and his former partner are among the 15 accused.
Yesterday’s swoop by the counter-terrorism unit of Portugal’s PJ judicial police was apparently focused on foiling a concerted attack on the country’s Islamic community. Tabloid Correio da Manhã suggests the The post PJ swoop on Neo-Nazis foiled “major attack on Islamic community” appeared first on Portugal Resident.
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.
A nationwide major operation by Portugal's Judiciary Police (PJ) dismantled the neo‑Nazi group 1143, which was being led from prison by Mário Machado. Among those arrested were a PSP officer and a member of the armed forces. The group had the means to carry out attacks.
The neo-Nazi group maintained networks throughout the country and also had active cells in Switzerland and France.
Group 1143 was created by 14 young people 25 years ago. It is a neo-Nazi, ultranationalist movement that opposes immigrants in Portugal and maintains that the country is only for Portuguese people.
37 people were detained and a further 15 were formally named as suspects.
37 people were detained and a further 15 suspects were formally charged.
Thirty-seven people were detained and a large cache of neo‑Nazi material was seized.
