Until the start of this week, the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PO) had opened 23 criminal cases against climate activists over protests in Lisbon, the Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday.
Among the trials, 20 of which began in October, are crimes of disobedience, qualified disobedience, attacks on the safety of road transport, resistance and coercion or qualified damage.
According to a message published this Thursday on the MP’s website, two of these cases had already been summarily tried in the Lisbon Minor Crimes Court in October.
As a result, the first of the three defendants were convicted of road safety offenses and sentenced to one year in prison, commuted to a 120-day fine.
In the second case, the court also convicted three defendants of the same crime, imposing a sentence of one year in prison, commuted to a 140-day fine.
In addition to these, there are seven more cases scheduled for trial in the first two weeks of December.
The Lisbon District Prosecutor’s Office also said that Lisbon’s Department of Investigation and Criminal Affairs (DIAP) is investigating a further 14 investigations, of which 11 relate to facts that occurred in the last two months.