Portuguese geographer Jorge Malheiros believes that the protests in greater Lisbon since the shooting of Cape Verdean Odair Moniz are a sign of the “spatial expression of inequality and disadvantage” in response to a police force infiltrated by xenophobic discourse, which uses violence as a first resort”. Speaking to Lusa, the expert in human mobility recalled that there are thousands of people living “in a situation of territorialised disadvantage, which is why we talk about neighbourhoods”.
Human mobility expert suggests Lisbon riots “also due to police violence”
A Lusa image from the rioting on Monday night, the evening after Odair Moniz was gunned down in Cova da Moura
