In a statement released today, the PSP reported that 18 incidents of fires involving street furniture in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) were recorded in the municipalities of Almada, Amadora, Seixal, Setúbal and Sintra, noting that there was also a recycling bin set on fire in the city of Leiria.

Contrary to previous reports, the police did not report people detained or identified in this context.

At this point regarding the incidents of public disorder that have occurred since the death of a man shot by the PSP in the early hours of Monday, the police indicated that, in addition to the incidents of fires in street furniture, in the last 24 hours there have been “ two stoned police vehicles, a stoned bus, two firecrackers exploding, throwing a pyrotechnic device into a PSP police station and other acts of vandalism, namely 'graffiti'”.

In this context, the PSP reinforced the warning that all shares on social networks inciting hatred and violence “are situations that constitute criminal offenses and are being collected and preserved in order to be communicated to the Public Ministry, so that whoever commits acts of this nature may be held criminally liable.”