Deputy Rita Matias will file a complaint against youths she claims attacked her, as well as a dozen members of Juventude do Chega, in the buildings of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
The alleged attacks took place late Thursday morning, involving participants in the student climate strike taking place in several Portuguese educational institutions, with “five or six young people” identified by PSP officers called to the scene by André Ventura’s elected party.
According to Rita Matias, who told Diário de Notícias, her party’s delegation, which had gone to higher education to challenge the foundations of the student climate strike and defended that universities should be “liberated from indoctrination”, was “surrounded” by several youths who “kicked and pushed”, threw water and insulted members of the Chega Youth.
According to the deputy, after the deputy director of FCSH asked the party youth delegation to disperse them kites, with messages such as “dismantling the climate crisis for nerds”, at the door of the establishment, on Avenida de Berna in Lisbon, members of Juventude do Chega re-entered the building. They will have once again heard slogans like “go away, fascists”, and whatever
Rita Matias describes how “an escalation of verbal aggression” culminated in “a siege” and “some bruises”.
Rita Matias announced the incidents on her Facebook account, saying that the political action of party youth was “clearly going well, with new activists and good support,” when they were “surrounded, insulted, threatened and attacked” by climate activists. “Those who claimed to be the owners of democracy were unable to respect a group of young people who peacefully defended what they believed in,” the deputy wrote.
Source: DN
