Go home english portugal takes to streets after a violent night of anti-government protests.
On Monday night, a group of people dressed in camouflage entered one of the many parks that line Lisbon’s main thoroughfare and threw molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles. After a week of protests over a proposed energy price rise, a new wave of violence broke out in Lisbon during the night to protest a바카라사이트gainst plans for new fuel prices, the mayor, Ada Colau, told reporters on Monday.
The violence followed police arrest of a local shop owner, who has said he was attacked by men with clubs in one of the square’s tourist districts.
The protests were the most violent to spread across the country in months. Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of 카지노 사이트protesters during the weekend after they threw fireworks and other objects into the air.
Tensio바카라n was also present at a soccer match between Lisbon and Porto Alegre, the Portuguese capital’s second-largest team, at Camp Nou. On Saturday, local media said people threw stones and bottles during matches in an attempt to force their way to Porto Alegre. The authorities called the attacks “terrorist” acts.
Portugal’s economy minister, Bruno Fernandes, said on Sunday that he could not understand why people were so offended by what had happened in one part of the city but not in others.
“There is a general feeling of anger here and across the country that something is not done to stop economic crisis,” said Fernandes, whose district includes many homes and businesses.
The violence in Lisbon prompted the country’s government to call in the national police to monitor the weekend’s demonstrations, which have become a rallying point for demonstrators demanding free movement to and from the country’s northern border, a departure from what it has done in recent weeks.
Portugal’s opposition said on Sunday that a small group of demonstrators had broken off from a march in the southern city of Santo Domingo on Saturday to protest over the price rises proposed for gasoline. The local police later told reporters that they were not aware of such a breakaway.
However, authorities said that after the unrest in the south, protesters had tried to move to more affluent areas in Porto Alegre. They said police had broken up several protests on Monday morning.
At a news conference on Sunday evening, Portugal’s president, José Manuel Barroso, urged his counterparts in northern Portugal to make progress. He also urged Portuguese businesses to stop accepting foreign currency from the Unite