A new email address (defesanimal@psp.pt) has been launched by Lisbon PSP police offering citizens an easy way to report cases of animal abuse and abandonment. The 21POLICIA telephone line (217 654 242) is already available for this purpose.
The moves are all part of a new campaign entitled ‘Maus tratos a animais são crime’ (Mistreating animals is a crime).
A new financial ‘scandal’ has been presented today in Público, alleging that the Bank of Portugal (BdP) has called in the public ministry over “suspect money-laundering operations” at CEMG - Caixa Económico Montepio Geral, better known as Montepio Bank.
At issue are “failures in the control mechanisms” that suggest “crimes of money-laundering and the financing of terrorism”, writes the paper - adding that the transactions in question all originated within Finibanco Angola, 61% owned by the Montepio Geral association.
Another horrific case of family violence has left one woman dead and her six-year-old son fighting for his life at Porto’s São João Hospital. They are believed to have been shot by 54-year-old António Reis, the woman’s partner and father of the child. He was arrested hours after the crime by PSP police and is now being held in custody.
The shooting happened at around 9pm on Thursday night (July 23), when Marinha Santos, 42, and her son were getting out of her car in the neighbourhood of Saibreiras in Ermesinde, a town near Porto.
Police investigating the discovery of the body of missing Portuguese student Diogo Moreira near Brighton railway station have admitted that they have no idea at the moment how the 29-year-old died.
They are not even sure if his body had been lying at the foot of the ravine where it was found on Wednesday evening for all the time Diogo had been missing - as it still seems extraordinary that with so many people searching for clues for so many days, a body could have gone unnoticed.
The body of a Brazilian man was found last night (July 23) in Lisbon’s Monsanto park, a source from PSP police told Lusa news agency.
Police say the man was around 50-years-old. The state of his body suggests it had lain unnoticed in the park for a few days. It was found by one of the park’s rangers near Bairro da Boavista in the area of Pina Manique.
With the cause of death for now unknown, the case has been handed over to PJ criminal police.
Article courtesy of the Portugal Resident http://portugalresident.com/
We’re in for another hot, sunny weekend, with temperatures reaching over 30ºC in many areas of Portugal.
According to IPMA, the institute for sea and atmosphere, maximum temperatures are expected to reach 31ºC in Faro and Lisbon, 37º in Évora, Portalegre and Castelo Branco, and a milder 25ºC in Porto.
Sunday (July 26) is expected to be slightly hotter than Saturday, with conditions tipped to continue into the coming week.
Article courtesy of the Portugal Resident http://portugalresident.com/
“Exaggerated shellfish bans” are causing serious hardship to Algarve fishermen – especially those who focus on catching the popular saltwater clams known locally as ‘conquilha’.
The warning comes from Ria Formosa shellfishing organisation Olhãopesca, which is calling on the government to stop being “overly strict” with its toxin-level standards.
It is another potentially-embarrassing revelation which Portugal’s prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho has deftly swatted to one side, blaming everything on “confusion” suffered by EC Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.
The latter was widely reported telling Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper that he had hoped to start talks on Greek debt relief in October “but this date was rejected because some countries - like Ireland, Portugal and Spain - did not want it before their elections”.
