Portimão travel agent arrested: dozens of clients allegedly swindled
Woman suspected of issuing up to €100,000 in ‘false airline tickets’ A 30-year-old woman, working for a Portimão travel agency, is suspected of having swindled dozens of people by issuing
MOT ‘corruption’: 30 arrested as police descend on testing centres
Premises targeted from Porto to Faro Roughly 30 people have been arrested so far in a PSP police operation targeting MOT testing centres. At issue, explain reports, are “suspicions of
Man shot dead by PSP agents in Algés
“Large armed man” was holding hostage and refused to surrender The Lisbon Metropolitan Command has admitted today that it could not dissuade an ‘aggressor’ which agents proceeded to shoot dead
SEF syndicate boss accuses GNR and PSP of racism
Police forces’ structural xenophobia ‘doesn’t gel with responsibility for immigrants’ SEF’s syndicate failed in its last-ditch attempt today to save the service from extinction, but in doing so it threw
Five young Brits arrested after scaling heights above Abril 25 bridge
Drivers call 112 in panic Five young Brits gave earlybird commuters into Lisbon the shock of their lives this week. The group were scaling the 190-metre ‘pillar 3’ of iconic
Man ‘on run’ since PSP killing ‘waits to be notified by authorities’
After statements indicating he dealt ‘killer blows’, police admit no CCTV evidence Clóvis Abreu remains ‘on the run’ from authorities investigating the death of PSP agent Fábio Guerra, outside the
PSP agent dies following violence outside Lisbon disco
Police locate two suspects: one “still at large” The fight for life by injured PSP agent Fábio Guerra died with him today at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José, taking the
Despair as thousands of rowdy young people destroy another weekend’s sleep in downtown Lisbon
Residents and businesses in downtown Lisbon are in despair, due to the continued crowds of late night revellers that descend on the area every weekend, making normal life impossible. The
Gunshots and knife attacks leave two dead after yet another problematic weekend in Lisbon
“Deconfinements have brought crowds back into Lisbon at night, and with them the violence has returned”. This is the opening sentence of a report today explaining that in less than
Pandemic negationist judge in on-air meltdown
Yesterday was the day that ‘pandemic negationist’ judge Rui Fonseca e Castro faced his regulatory authority after months of suspension over his very public views on authorities’ approach to Covid-19