Attack on migrants in Porto: “Unacceptable”, says Rui Moreira, who defends the extinction of AIMA

“The attack on a house where immigrants live, in the parish of Bonfim, in Porto, is a hate crime that cannot be relativized in any way. It is an unacceptable attack”, said Rui Moreira at the beginning of the municipal executive meeting.

Saying that any attempt to justify or explain this attack is unacceptable, the independent reinforced that it is also unacceptable to say that it occurs as a response to other crimes that are occurring in that area and to say that the fault lies with parliament or the interpretations of the colonialism.

“These speeches serve those who are interested in opening barricades in our society,” he added.

The mayor said that it is necessary to trust that the police authorities are doing everything they can to ensure that those responsible, directly and indirectly, are identified and that justice knows how to “punish them in an exemplary manner”.

Rui Moreira understood that this episode requires “concrete actions, a lot of responsibility and rationality in the management of scarce public resources”.

Therefore, the mayor of Porto defended the extinction of AIMA and the use of the resources at its disposal to enable municipalities to respond and reinforce the police forces with the resources they currently do not have to combat crime.

“I repeat, AIMA is an inoperative agency that wastes public money without fulfilling its proposed mission and, therefore, it must be extinguished”, he insisted.

Rui Moreira questioned why in a country where parliamentary commissions of inquiry are created “so easily” the Assembly of the Republic does not investigate this national agency that “remains dead in the face of the apparent lack of control over migratory flows”.

In the early hours of Friday, three attacks and attacks on immigrants took place in the Campo 24 de Agosto area, on Rua do Bonfim and Rua Fernandes Tomás, in Porto.

According to the PSP, the attacks were carried out by several groups, with five immigrants being taken to hospital due to their injuries.

Following the attacks, six men were identified and one was arrested for illegal possession of a weapon.

Given the suspicion of the existence of a hate crime, the case began to be investigated by the Judiciary Police.

with Lusa