This Saturday, President Chegi welcomed the increase in the terrorist threat level in Portugal, believing that it would strengthen the police, and insisted on parliamentary hearings of the Minister of the Interior and “secrecy”.
The Internal Security System (SSI) announced on Friday that it had decided to raise the terrorist threat level in Portugal from moderate to significant, given that in the context of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, “conditions exist that justify” the change. .
“I would like to unconditionally welcome the increase in the alarm level, it seems to me a positive, sensible move on the part of the government,” Andre Ventura told reporters on the sidelines of an initiative to combat homelessness in Lisbon.
Chegi’s leader believed the change would allow, for example, “more police resources” to be devoted to protecting the Jewish community, which had hitherto paid for increased security in the face of “increasing levels of threats.”
Ventura believed that this increase in threat level was also a “government acknowledgment” of the warnings that Chega had already made, insisting that “Portugal has been a confluence of several extremist movements, either as a transit point or as a transit point or as a operational point.”
The Chega leader recalled that the party had already submitted a request to Parliament this week, which is expected to be voted on Wednesday, so that Minister José Luis Carneiro and the Secretary General of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic could be heard by deputies, “even if it is behind closed doors “.
“It is important that they can explain what concerns we have, what security risks exist at this moment for the Portuguese,” he said, recalling that a suspect in a terrorist attack in Belgium that killed two people “was jailed in Guarda prison ” and eventually fled the country.
In a statement on Friday, SSI explained that the decision approved by the Anti-Terrorism Coordination Group (UCAT) is being taken “primarily for preventive and precautionary reasons” as “there are no signs indicating the development of terrorist activities on national territory.”
This decision, he explains, followed European partners, noting that in some cases there were “terrorist acts committed by isolated radical actors who are difficult to detect.”
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7, firing thousands of rockets and invading armed militias, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, the movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and which the European Union and the United States classify as terrorist, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a complete blockade of the area, cutting off water, fuel and electricity.
The border post between Egypt and the Gaza Strip was reopened this Saturday to ensure the flow of aid and allow Palestinians to leave the area.
The conflict has already caused the death and injury of thousands of military personnel and civilians in both territories.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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