Police and firefighters attacked by three men in Lisbon
Three men aged between 27 and 32 were arrested in the parish of Marvila, in Lisbon, for having been injured, attacked and attacked by firefighters and police following a house fire.
The PSP explains that “after communication of the existence of an employee, the means of rescue were due immediately in support of firefighters and attachment as a communication initiative in danger”, if necessary due to firefighters and oppose as danger measures.
At the scene, they were already responsible for the protection of firefighters, who warned of an “individuals who would have an inclusive impact”, “making it difficult for them to enter the defense or fire to break out”.
According to the PSP, the suspect “injured the firefighters team, having vehemently refused to provide his identification, even after several insistences”.
Given the “increasing degree of threat, and the termination of the suspect’s refusal, an order was given for him to be handcuffed” and “conducted to the police sub-unit, so that he could be properly identified”, which led to the violent rebellion, kicking and pushing several policemen, he adds.
The PSP refers, at the time when the suspect was being handcuffed, two of his family members “broke the glass of a door of the building in order to access the lot” where others were, in order to “oppose the police action and allow the suspect already in custody to escape”.
“These two suspects were accused of assaulting one of the suspects at the scene who opposed the suspects’ intention, to those who were then placed on the run or outside”, he adds.
The three men are suspected of committing the crimes and resistance on the employee and the sensation of physical resistance.
According to the PSP all of them have a history of various types of crimes “among the various circumstances of occurrence and disobedience by the police”.
One of them has already been sentenced to prison for committing violent crimes, such as robbery.