The 11 detained students who spent the night in the Lisbon metropolitan area were released at 16:00 without being told by a judge what would happen on Monday, a movement spokesman told Lusa.
According to Beatriz Xavier, one of the representatives of the Lisbon Student Climate Strike Movement, the 11 students who remained in the police station until 16:00 this Saturday did not go to the Justice Campus, as stated in a statement of the movement sent this Saturday to Luz.
The spokesman said 11 students would appear before a judge, while the remaining 13 students were detained at Friday’s demonstrations.
The youths will be heard by a Campus Judicial Judge on Monday at 10 a.m.
According to a press release from the Lisbon Student Climate Strike group sent to Lusa, 24 young people were arrested on Friday at demonstrations to end the use of fossil fuels.
Of the 24 protesters, 11 young people spent the night in the Lisbon metropolitan area and were due to appear before a judge at 10am today.
The group says ten students were charged with insubordination “after staging a sit-in at the Ministry of Infrastructure.”
Another student was charged with “resisting or coercing police,” the statement said.
“The government would rather continue sending police to repress and now attack students than commit to a plan consistent with science to secure our future,” said Beatrice Xavier, a spokeswoman for the wave of action to end fossil fuel use by 2030 and 100 % renewable and affordable fuel. electricity by 2025, the press release says.
The girl added that keeping young women in the police station at night “seems to be just another way for the system” to “try to intimidate” them.
“They will not succeed because we know that we are fighting for our lives. We are on the right side of history, we cannot stop,” he concluded.
About 50 young activists gathered on Friday morning in Largo Camões and soon after marched to the Ministry of the Environment, but the march was momentarily interrupted when police searched three protesters and confiscated two “pyrotechnic devices” and a bag of paints.
The parade continued with slogans against the exploitation of fossil energy, and while marching along Rua do Seculo, near the Ministry of the Environment, protesters managed to release red, green and black smoke from devices similar to those confiscated. from PSP.
Demonstrations took place in other places as well.
Activists have held demonstrations and actions demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels by 2030 and a transition to 100% renewable and affordable electricity by 2025, ensuring that this is the last winter that fossil fuels are used in Portugal.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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