The Consul General of Portugal in New York, Luisa País Lowe, and the Portuguese ambassador to the UN, Ana Paula Zacarías, participated in an act of tribute to the Portuguese victims of the September 11 attacks, official sources reported this Monday.
“We have paid tribute to the nine Portuguese and descendants of Portuguese who perished in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001,” indicated the Consulate General of Portugal in New York on the social network Facebook, also thanking the Director of Operations of the National Service 11 of September. Memorial & Museum, Renato Batista and his team, for their support in carrying out the ceremony.
Ana Paula Zacarías also highlighted the moment on her social networks, stating that it was an “honor to be able to pay tribute to the Portuguese who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001”, highlighting the feeling of “duty accomplished.”
At the ceremony, in which representatives of the region’s Portuguese community also participated, Portuguese flowers and flags were placed next to the names of the victims who appear on the 9/11 Memorial in New York.
In total, nine Portuguese and Portuguese descendants lost their lives in the Al-Qaida attack on September 11, 2001, 22 years ago.
Eight Portuguese victims were identified in the days following the attack, and the name of a Portuguese descendant from Massachusetts was only identified a year after the attacks.
On September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by Al-Qaida terrorists and two of them intentionally crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which collapsed two hours after impact.
The third passenger plane crashed into the Pentagon building, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, outside Washington DC.
The fourth plane crashed in a field in the state of Pennsylvania, after some passengers and crew tried to regain control of the aircraft.
There were no survivors among the passengers on the planes and, in total, the attacks left more than three thousand dead and more than six thousand injured.
Source: TSF
