Bernd Koch

Lisbon's Câmara Municipal held an extraordinary session on Wednesday after it emerged that a Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) chief, on secondment to the city's Municipal Police, was a member of the Movimento Armilar Lusitano (MAL), a neo-Nazi group now accused of 29 crimes including terrorism. The officer accessed the personal data of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas from inside the Municipal Police systems. Expresso reported last week that the group maintained a "Lista dos Indesejáveis" of more than 170 individuals and entities considered targets, including elected officials, activists, and journalists. According to the public prosecutor's indictment, the group discussed kidnapping the Prime Minister or launching a grenade at his residence. Bloco de Esquerda's Carolina Serrão raised the alarm at the Câmara session, calling it "a grave breach of data protection and security systems." She demanded to know whether the executive had prior knowledge, what internal investigations had been conducted, and what measures were being taken to prevent it from happening again. The Câmara voted unanimously (with Chega abstaining) to "condemn firmly all forms of neo-Nazi, racist, xenophobic, and anti-democratic ideology," to condemn any attempts at intimidation or violence against elected officials, and to demand rigorous accountability for the presence of extremist-linked individuals within public security forces. For Lisbon residents, the story is unsettling on two levels. A serving police officer with neo-Nazi affiliations was embedded inside the city's own police force, with access to systems containing personal data of the country's most senior elected officials. And the group was not a fringe internet forum. MAL is accused of terrorism by the public prosecutor, with an organisational structure, a target list of 170+ names, and discussions about kidnapping the PM and attacking his residence. The broader question: how was a PSP chief with these affiliations seconded to the Municipal Police without detection? The vetting that should have caught this either failed or didn't happen. The Câmara's vote is a statement of values. Whether it leads to structural reform of police vetting and data access protocols is what matters next. Bottom line: A neo-Nazi officer was inside Lisbon's police force, accessing the PM's personal data, while the group he belonged to discussed kidnapping Montenegro and launching a grenade at his residence. The Câmara condemned it. Now the system has to explain how it happened. From the Lisbon Letter. As we can see,Trumps Neofasciste shit spreads everywhere,and European leaders accept,let him do and sometimes do the same... seems they are almost happy with this kind of dictatorship...