A second bizarre daylight attack took place in the Lisbon/ Greater Lisbon area yesterday: this time with much more dramatic consequences. A 34-year-old man received a gunshot wound to the stomach and a slash to the arm from an assailant wielding a ‘catana’. According to most reports the victims is considered seriously injured but stable. One report by Fala Portugal (online news) claims he has died.
The incident happened at 11.14 am close to the Escola Profissional da Moita (Moita professional school).
The day before, also in daylight, a woman claims to have been forced to stop her car after collecting her daughter from school by two armed men in hoods who then tried to remove her daughter from her car seat.
The woman managed somehow to ‘get away’, with her child – but the story was further complicated by her assertion that the men were driving a car with exactly the same licence plate as her own.
This first incident happened in Campolide, in Lisbon – and the woman reported it straight away to police.
The second incident in Moita also involved armed men in hoods. This time however there were five of them, apparently driving a Peugeot car.
The men drove up to the man in which the victim sat in the driver’s seat, alongside a friend in the passenger seat.
According to reports, “it all happened very quickly”. The van driver got out of his vehicle to confront one of the assailants. He was shot at, and slashed with the catana. The friend fled, returning to the scene later, where he has since helped authorities by confirming exactly what took place.
Both incidents, on paper, sound almost surreal.
Whereas the first did not involve any kind of theft, the second left the victim without his mobile phone, wallet and money. According to a report in Correio da Manhã, the five attackers also made off with the keys to the van.
The Fala Portugal report came much later today.
Source: Correio da Manhã/ SIC
