Threatened PSP agent with machete and was shot in the leg
A 39-year-old man was shot in the leg by a PSP agent in the early hours of Friday, in the parish of Misericórdia, in Lisbon. According to the police, the individual had two machetes and advanced towards the agents with one of them raised.
According to the PSP’s Lisbon Metropolitan Command, the incident occurred around 0:50 am this morning, in Travessa de São José. Ten minutes before a call to a police attempt at a man, who had been mortified by a dog.
“Arriving at the scene, the police found, inside the common space of the building, a citizen who was carrying two large white weapons, aka machetes, carrying one of them on his waist and wielding the other”, he says, in a statement, a PSP.
The individual, according to the Police, “presented an aggressive and non-cooperative behavior, despite repeated starts and so that weapons could be encouraged, he advanced towards the police, with the machete”.
In view of the seriousness of the threat, “one of the police officers used a firearm against the suspected aggressor, in a less lethal way, hitting him in the leg.
“Immediately, the police provided first aid to the citizen and called for medical assistance.
The Police pointed out that, although it is not known at this time, “an investigation process has been initiated to improve the facts and circumstances of what happened”.
“The PSP calls on all citizens to appeal to the legal and natural orders of the police in order to avoid having to use public force, which does not hesitate to make public force, in an appropriate, legal way”, concludes the statement.