Diogo Noivo, a risk analyst, says that the definition of terrorism in Portuguese law is too “wide”. More de Carvalho, Cára researcher in the area of ​​psychology of terrorism, draws attention to paraty as a suspect of a suspect who “would be suffering”

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“Reserved”, “good student”, but with difficulties in relating to others. This is how those who know him describe the 18-year-old who was arrested by the Judiciary Police on Thursday, allegedly in anticipation of carrying out an attack on the University of Lisbon with the aim of killing as many colleagues as possible.

The student was in preventive detention, without, after a judicial instruction, having validated terrorism, understanding that the continuation of criminal activity and disturbance of public security was at stake. But for Diogo Noivo, a risk analyst and author of studies on political violence and terrorism, “we must be cautious in the use of the word terrorism”, under penalty of “emptying” it of its real meaning.

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“These are two different conversations”, says Diogo Noivo to CNN Portugal. “By one meaning, on the legal plane, the law defines terrorism quite broadly, or in legal terms, the case of terrorism. politics”, consulting. “The extreme right, and motivated by terrorism, can be articulated around extreme arguments, he adds, but on the right, semcologist-left, but with an intention to fulfill a political agenda”, Diogo Noivo.

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The expert prefers not to make predictions but, based on what is available, concludes: “I do not venture to say what this case is, but I venture to say what it is not. And it is not terrorism”, detailed information.

Elastic terrorism concept

Diogo Noivo recalls the Invasion of the Sporting Academy, Alcochete, to give another one that Portuguese law treated as terrorism, although he does not look at the proven side: “What happened was enough to understand that it was not terrorism. of serious things, wants to talk to the Portuguese analyst, but we don’t have the information that was disjointed yesterday, based on the information we have to classify as terrorism”, summarizes the analyst, who prefers not to answer if an analyst “is fine or badly done”.

“Let’s treat a boy alone that we’re being equal to equally customizable things.adds Diogo Noivo.

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The analyst’s position is shared by Cátia Moreira Carvalho, a researcher in the field of psychology of terrorism. “The concept of terrorism that Portuguese law uses is quite elastic”, considering the researcher, who prefers to classify the plan dismantled by the authorities as an “alleged attempt at an act of violence”.

Previous suffering situation

Cátia Moreira de Carvalho points out that it is necessary to bear in mind that this is an 18-year-old “already in a situation of suffering” and that there is a family that is now being confronted with the labeling of this “terrorist”.

“Terrorism, by any type of violence, by sensitive oleological definition.highlights the researcher, who mainly draws attention to the fact that this gliding shot is copied from others that were built in the United States or young in New Zealand, who drew attention to the fact that this gliding shot was copied from others that were built in the United States or young people in New Zealand, in mass in which the 18-year-old will have.

“Therefore, I appeal to be very careful in the management of this case in the public sphere, in the media. Because this case can be an inspiration for other people who think of mimicking it”, says Cátia Moreira de Carvalho, recalling that this mimicry effect is frequent other types of crime, such as domestic violence or arson. “Probably what will turn out is that this young man is not acting in the name of any political cause,” she stresses.

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The researcher also analyzes the relationship between this plan of violence and a possible situation of mental disorder for the young woman herself. “It can be cases of people with mental health problems who commit attacks because they were inspired and their violent action was motivated by a political or ideological cause, a combination of the two factors can happen. But the association is very residual”, she says.

About this in particular, Cátia Moreira de Carvalho can admit that the young person having psychological problems, “in interaction with other contextual factors in his life”, may be at the base of the plan that was discovered in the house where he lived with other students . “Although the law frames this as terrorism, it is not terrorism,” she assures.