Chega’s request for an urgent hearing by the interior minister regarding Tuesday’s attack on the Ismaili center in Lisbon was rejected this Wednesday by the PS and BE.
In the vote at the session of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the application submitted on Tuesday, hours after the attack took place, still had the abstention of the PAN and the favorable votes of Chega, PSD and Liberal Initiative.
The rejection of José Luís Carneiro’s urgent hearing comes after the interior minister expressed his willingness to be heard in parliament over the attack on the Ismaili in statements on the sidelines of a meeting in his ministry with the Portuguese Firefighters Union on Tuesday Center and other security matters.
It was at the end of the meeting that José Luís Carneiro said that “when the parliament deems it necessary”, he will be ready, like other members of the government, to go to the Assembly of the Republic “to get everything out to explain what has to do with the question of security”.
The minister emphasized that this has always been his tone, recalling that “he has already been in parliament several times this year”, so “he will also be able to talk about immigration policy” if that is the will of the deputies.
At the Ismaili Center in Lisbon, two women were killed on Tuesday in a knife attack by an Afghan refugee who was detained and hospitalized after being shot by police.
The attack – the motivation of which is still unknown – left one more injured and was condemned by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and by the Prime Minister, António Costa.
The killer now being held is a refugee under international protection and was not the target of “any indication” from authorities.
The national director of the judicial police said today that “there is no indication whatsoever” that the attack was an act of terrorism, admitting it was the result of “a psychotic break at the hands of the aggressor”.
Source: DN
