Shooting followed “disagreement among clients”
Saturday night in Olhão ended with the owner of one of the town’s cafés being shot in the legs following a “disagreement among clients”.
Reports have not gone into much detail, nor mentioned if the clients had been drinking heavily/ taking substances that might have provoked the meltdown – but the injured man is not at any risk to life, and the alleged aggressor has been identified, albeit not yet detained.
Correio da Manhã gives a few more details: the ‘disagreement’ developed into a commotion in which the café windows were battered/ broken after being hit with a motorcycle helmet, and crockery broken after a chair was slammed on the café counter.
These incidents prompted the intervention of the café owner, who ended up being ‘attacked’.
The alleged attacker then left the premises, presumably to retrieve the gun that became involved. He is understood to have returned (with the gun), seen the café owner in the street, and shot at him four times (hitting him twice, in the legs).
Various first responders were called. The café owner was transported to hospital and now PJ police are on the trail of the alleged shooter.
Incidents with guns, however, are seemingly becoming more commonplace. A 37-year-old man, for instance, was also shot in both legs in the early hours of Sunday morning in the (complicated) neighbourhood of Cova da Moura, Amadora (near Lisbon), opting to take an ‘Uber’ to hospital, and apparently refusing to give authorities any details of who, or why, shot him.
And in Porto, early this morning, a 34-year-old man was shot in one knee and his backside – and taken to hospital by a family member, according to Jornal de Notícias.
