Lisbon. PSP carries out a major operation in the Horta Nova neighborhood
This Monday. three police officers were injured following two preventive arrests in a neighborhood in the parish of Carnide, in Lisbon, after being called out for the explosion of pyrotechnic devices.
According to the same source, the agents were called, at 11:00 pm on Monday, to the Horta Nova neighborhood due to the explosion of pyrotechnic devices.
“Upon arrival at the scene, the police officers were injured, which led to a first police intervention, which resulted in an individual being arrested, for assaulting one of the police officers”, the note adds.
The detainee would be transported to facilities outside Horta Nova, but, according to the PSP, there was a need for a second intervention in this neighborhood, due to the attempt of new aggressions.
“During this intervention, shots of less lethal ammunition were chosen, with the aim of dispersing suspects of the practice of illicit acts”, explains the PSP.
The three police officers required medical treatment. Images of this intervention, released on social networks, show stones and bottles being thrown from buildings against a column of PSP agents, equipped with helmets and protective shields.
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