News and developments from Porto, Portugal's second city.
President Seguro asked the Government and the Ombudsman for a detailed account of the predawn clearance of the Lisbon and Porto housing camps. The PSP counts 13 detained and 13 officers hurt; a lawyer plans a criminal complaint against minister Luís Neves.
The housing camp in front of the Rivoli is cleared for a third time, the council votes on Tuesday to stop seven developers paying cash instead of building affordable homes, new bus lanes on Fernão de Magalhães, and FC Porto win ten from ten.
The PSP broke up the housing protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's Praça D. João I at about 04:30 on Sunday, the third removal since 20 October. Organisers count at least 10 detained in Lisbon and 38 injured in Porto; police figures are still awaited.
Thousands marched in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday, a week after the camps were cleared. The Ombudsman's torture-prevention team was present, and by early evening the question was whether tents would go up again for the night.
Judges at the São João Novo court found the tax-fraud charge unproven and cleared Mário Ferreira and two of his companies over the 2015 sale of the Atlântida via a Maltese company. What the prosecution alleged, what the defence argued, and what comes next.
The Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto plans up to 400 rental homes in two to three years on Rua da Constituição and the old Estádio do Lima site, for families who get no public housing help. Rents of 500 to 1,500 euros; allocation by public call.
The mayor will put a tenfold property-tax rise on empty buildings in the Centro Histórico into the 2027 budget. What the IMI Code allows, who decides, and the 33 million euros developers paid instead of building affordable homes.
