Calls for
criminals nationality to be included in security reports
Immigration
experts agree with the inclusion of the nationality of criminals and victims in
the Annual Internal Security Report (RASI), but some warn of the need to
distinguish immigrants from those who are merely foreigners.
By TPN/Lusa,
in News, Portugal, Crime · 28 Jan 2025 · 1 Comments
In
statements to Lusa, jurist Ana Rita Gil and geographer Jorge Malheiros agree
with the inclusion of data such as nationality in the RASI, requested by the
Liberal Initiative, considering that this, if properly done, can demystify the
discourse that links immigrants to criminality.
"Nationality
is an objective fact, therefore, it does not seem to me that anything in the
Constitution opposes this possibility", Ana Rita Gil told Lusa,
considering that the measure could "combat prejudices and a narrative that
thinks that immigrant populations come to cause more crime".
For Jorge
Malheiros, having only "nationalities is insufficient information",
because "some of the foreign detainees do not reside in Portugal and,
therefore, by publishing only nationalities and not having components about
residence or intersection with age, it may send the wrong message that certain
groups of immigrants are associated with certain criminality."
When, in
many cases, it may not be immigrants, but people who are passing through
Portugal who are committing crimes, mainly in drug and human trafficking cases,
"where there is an overrepresentation of foreigners", said the
professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University
of Lisbon.
Including
only nationality, "in current times, can very easily fuel a discourse
based on incomplete and distorted information", which amounts to
"saying that foreigners from certain groups are immigrants" in
Portugal, added the researcher.
For Ana Rita
Gil, professor at Lisbon Public Law (Centre for Research in Public Law at the
Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon), the publication of "objective
information" that is nationality will also have the virtue of allowing
existing problems to be identified.
"If
there is indeed a community that commits more crimes than another, it could
also be a way for the State to invest in greater integration," she
explained, considering that public information should be the rule of a state
governed by the rule of law.
"Information
that is not protected must be transparent," because "we live in a
democratic state," she added.
Regarding
the publication of nationality data in RASI 2024, the Internal Security System
has already informed Lusa that it does not intend to introduce changes for the
time being.
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