“The establishment of an investigation is confirmed, in the scope of which all facts that have been made public in the last days will be investigated”, said the Attorney General’s Office.
The opening of the inquiry comes after the deputies of the Bloco de Esquerda Beatriz Dias and Mariana Mortágua said they would complain to the MP following threats received.
In addition to the two blockade deputies, the non-registered deputy (former Free) Joacine Katar Moreira and Jonathan Costa, of the Anti-Fascist Unitarian Front, were also targeted.
The leader of SOS Racismo, Mamadou Ba, went to make statements on Wednesday to the Judiciary Police and confirmed that he had received, together with nine other people, an email stipulating a 48-hour deadline to leave the country, otherwise life risk.
“We inform you that a period of 48 hours has been allocated for the anti-fascist and anti-racist leaders included in this list, to terminate their political functions and leave Portuguese territory”, it reads in the email.
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In the same text, the authors refer that if the deadline is exceeded “measures will be taken against these leaders and their families, in order to guarantee the security of the Portuguese people”, and that “the month of August will be the month of the nationalist rebirth” .
Dated August 11, the message was sent from an address created on a temporary e-mail website and is signed by “New Order of Avis – National Resistance”, the same designation of a group that claimed, on the Facebook social network, to have held, with their faces covered and torches, a “vigil in honor of the security forces” in front of the SOS Racismo facilities, in Lisbon.
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Marcelo asked for “zero tolerance”
The President of the Republic recommended to the Democrats “zero tolerance” and “common sense” to combat racism, when commenting on the threats to which three deputies and seven other activists were targeted.
“Democrats must be very firm in their principles and, at the same time, be sensible in their defense. Firm in principles means zero tolerance towards what is condemned by the Constitution (of the Portuguese Republic), common sense means being attentive to campaigns and climbs that are easy to do on sensitive issues in Portuguese society “, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The Government and several parties, as well as the President of the Assembly of the Republic, also rejected the threats made to activists and the association.
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