The PSP was forced to shoot a 54-year-old man who was carrying a bladed weapon threatening at the Bela Vista metro station on the red line in Lisbon this Thursday afternoon.
The man was wounded twice in the legs, nothing threatens his life. The attack resulted in the breaking of the red line of the Metropolitano de Lisbon. “This is impossible predict the duration of the break, which can be extended,” the company said on the social network. twitter.
The PSP statement clarified that she was called to Avenida Vergilio Ferreira in Marvell at 6:07 p.m. due to an incident involving a “violent person”. When the police arrived at the scene, they found a citizen with a “big white gun” in a building on that street. The man fled towards Bela Vista metro, armed and threatening to attack people on the street. The PSP agents began a pursuit that ended with their arrival at the station. The man tried to throw himself on the rope, but he was stopped by one of the policemen.
“After the arrest, the man behaved aggressively and uncooperatively and even stabbed one of the police officers, cutting his uniform in the abdomen,” explains PSP.
After he managed to free himself, authorities explain that the man drove into the subway line and the chase ended only when “the man stopped running, turned to the police and moved in their direction.”
After being asked to drop his weapon, the suspect walked towards the agents with the “clear intent to commit aggression”. A note published by the PSP states that “it was necessary to use firearms against the suspected aggressor in a less lethal way, hitting him in both legs.”
The police gave the attacker first aid, after which he was taken to the hospital. The man is not in danger, he is in police custody and will be presented to the judiciary.
Due to a fall during a police chase, one of the agents also ended up in the hospital.