Public safety, crime statistics, and security in Portugal.
The council found Legionella pneumophila at the Estádio de Sobrado and Legionella spp at a school pavilion in Ermesinde, both during scheduled quarterly testing, with nobody reported ill. Which is precisely why, under Lei 52/2018, neither is legally an outbreak.
CIVISA raised the Furnas volcano to alert level V1 on Tuesday evening after a swarm that began at 11:47 and produced a magnitude 2.9 felt at intensity V in the village. Four volcanic systems on three islands are now at V1, and only this one has an expiry date.
A fisherman called the GNR before dawn on Sunday to say 20 to 30 people had come ashore at Praia da Foz. Officers found an inflatable, its motor and scattered provisions, and nobody at all. Portugal has recorded seven such landings on the Algarve coast since the end of 2019.
Porto's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan goes to a vote on Tuesday on whether to open it to public consultation. Its diagnosis chapter records 38 deaths, 71 serious injuries and 5,435 light ones between 2019 and 2023, and maps where each kind of accident happens.
Julian Amaral, 23, told a cousin he was going to the toilet and was not seen again. Two security staff watched him leave the boat at the Alcantara docks. Divers searched the Doca de Alcantara on Friday, found nothing where he is thought to have entered the water, and widened the area on Saturday.
FEPONS provisional data puts drowning deaths 15 percent above last year and past the 2022 record of 88. Rivers took 35 lives and the sea 27, with the rest spread across dams, domestic pools, wells and flooded roads.
Parliament's independent commission on the August 2025 wildfires asked what each one cost. The ANEPC could supply only an annual aggregate of about €18.8 million. No cost per fire, per expense type or per operational phase exists, and the command post's finance cell was never activated.
