Warned he needed a valid travel card, a 32-year-old man brutally assaulted a security guard at Lisbon’s Rossio train station on Sunday morning. The attacks occurred at 8 a.m. A PSP agent had just arrived for his shift at Rossio station when a citizen alerted him to attacks already underway on a security guard near the ticket check area in the non-payment zone.
The 64-year-old victim was thrown to the ground and kicked all over her body, including her head. She had to be hospitalized. The attacker, who was released as the investigation ended, also attacked a PSP agent who tried to stop the attacks. The officer was forced to use pepper spray and “strictly necessary physical force.”
The victim was thrown to the ground and the assailant did not stop when ordered, but instead “reacted aggressively and openly toward the officer.” The pepper spray “did not work” and the man, “visibly upset and aggressive,” scratched the officer’s arm.