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...
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Au Yémen, une association de mères de personnes enlevées lutte pour retrouver leurs proches disparus depuis le début de la guerre en 2014, se heurtant à l'indifférence des autorités et aux complications sociales dues à ces disparitions. #Yémen #Femmes #Kidnapping
The UN human rights chief reported that gang violence in Haiti has resulted in at least 2,300 deaths and nearly 100 kidnappings this year, prompting calls for urgent action to address the rampant impunity in the country since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. #HaitiViolence #GangCrime #HumanRights
Armed men in Haiti have kidnapped James Boyard, the chief of staff to the defense minister and a top security official, along with his wife and young daughter, amid escalating gang violence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where kidnappings have increasingly targeted public officials for ransom. #HaitiKidnapping #GangViolence #SecurityCrisis
Retired Nigerian General Rabe Abubakar, who was kidnapped alongside his wife in Katsina state last month, has died in captivity, highlighting ongoing security issues in north-west Nigeria where criminal gangs frequently engage in kidnappings for ransom. #Nigeria #Kidnapping #SecurityChallenges
Across The Barbed Wire: Ricardo Vaz on Venezuela, hardship, sanctions, kidnapping and the fight for oil. In part three of this mini-series exploring Western-backed and Western-involved conflicts from the other side, we cut through the fog of war and turn our attention to #Venezuela #Sanctions #Conflict #VE
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Over 300 Iraqi Kurdish migrants heading to the UK were kidnapped in Libya, tortured, and threatened with forced organ removal by a militia demanding ransoms, with horrific accounts from former hostages revealing severe mistreatment and conditions during their captivity. #HumanTrafficking #MigrationCrisis #Kidnapping
In the USA, the morning show: Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of the former American president, in tears while interviewing star journalist Savannah Guthrie from the morning show, whose mother was recently kidnapped and whose fate is unknown. (translated)
The press reveals this morning that the U.S. invasion of Cuba could be imminent. Troop and ship movements around the island indicate this; all that is needed is the "green light" from Donald Trump. Several possibilities: a kidnapping of the Cuban president, like... (translated)
Can you imagine the depravity of Israel and those who back its evil, when they aren't even defending the torture, kidnapping, ethnic cleansing, starvation and infanticide anymore, but they are busy trying to disprove they didn't rape Palestinians with dogs. That's the level now. #Israel #Palestine #HumanRights #IL #PS
