Most of the 1,377 Portuguese detained abroad in 2021 were in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, with the main reasons for arrest being related to narcotics, crimes against the person, sexual crimes and homicide, reveals the Emigration Report.
Prepared by the Emigration Observatory, a research center of Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the document will be presented today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Lisbon, and indicates that in 2021 there were 1,377 Portuguese detained abroad, 123 more than in the past year
Of these, 697 were in the UK, France and Switzerland, the vast majority being men (82%).
On the European continent, there were Portuguese detainees in the United Kingdom (263), France (242), Switzerland (192), Spain (167), Luxembourg (117) and Germany (116), for a total of 1,097 of the 1,198 registered arrests. in Europe.
Outside Europe, the authors of the report identified 179 detained citizens, with Brazil, once again, being the country with the highest number of arrests of national citizens outside the European space (99).
Of the Portuguese detained abroad, 429 were in prison, serving a sentence, and 170 in preventive detention.
Also in compliance with the sentence, 96 were on probation, house arrest, open and semi-open regime, among others. Nine had an international arrest warrant and one was serving a mandatory community or social work sentence.
About 672 detainees, the authorities of the countries did not provide information.
The authors indicate that the number of Portuguese detainees abroad increased compared to the same period last year: 123 more, which is equivalent to an increase of approximately 10%, registering an increase in detainees in Europe (149 more). and a decrease outside of Europe (minus 26).
The number of detainees in effective prison has decreased (26 less), compared to the increase in the number of people in pretrial detention (56 more).
In the period analyzed, 371 Portuguese were expelled, withdrawn or deported to Portugal, of which 276 came from European countries (74%) and 95 from the rest of the world (26%).
The document specifies that 13 Portuguese citizens who were expelled, removed or deported from the United Kingdom (five), Canada (three), France (two), Peru (two) and the United States of America (one) were welcomed.
Of the 276 Portuguese citizens of European countries, nine were deported or expelled from Germany, two from Austria, five from Belgium, four from Denmark, 50 from France, seven from Finland, two from Greece, one from Hungary, 32 from Luxembourg, one from Montenegro, 95 from Norway, 10 from the Netherlands, 42 from the United Kingdom, 14 from Sweden and two from Switzerland.
Of the 95 Portuguese citizens from countries around the world, three were expelled or deported from Angola, six from Australia, seven from Brazil, 44 from Canada, one from China, 12 from the United States, one from Israel, two from Mozambique. , one from New Zealand, 10 from Peru, one from Senegal, one from Turkey and six from Venezuela.
Source: TSF
