Society
Police
intervened after clashes with man with Israeli flag. Manif went from camped to
"shelled"
Demonstrators
also confused Lask supporters, who came from Alvalade, with
"far-right" elements.
David
Pereira, Ricardo Simões Ferreira
Published
to:
21 Oct
2026, 20:25
Updated
to:
22 Oct
2026, 01:50
The
appearance of a man holding an Israeli flag in D. Pedro IV square, in Rossio,
triggered scenes of high tension in the demonstration this Wednesday, October
21, of the Acampada de Lisboa movement.
The
situation led to clashes between protesters and the man, and the police were
forced to intervene, at a time when the tents were being set up.
Following
the incidents, the Rossio metro station was closed.
Over the
past few days, several protesters have been waving Palestinian flags during the
protests.
The
demonstrators of the Acampada de Lisboa movement decided to spend the night in
D. Pedro IV square during the early hours of Thursday.
The
measure was approved with 190 votes in favor and 270 abstentions.
Around
00:40 am, most of the protesters who still had tents set up chose to remove
them, after a request from the police.
At that
time, a spokesman for the movement told the protesters that it would be prudent
not to organize a human cordon - as was once considered - because this would
lead to police intervention.
Around
1:00 am, in a popular vote, the option for the demonstrators to dismantle the
tents when the PSP orders them to do so and sleep "in a spoon" (sic)
in the sleeping bags they took won.
An
"aconchada", they called, no longer a camp.
Lask's
confusion with the "far right"
About
half an hour earlier there was a moment that proved to be unusual, when the
demonstrators felt threatened by a group of people "dressed in black"
who passed by the place.
Identified
as members of the "far-right", the protesters began anti-government
and other chants in response.
However,
the PSP ended up identifying this group as fans of Lask, the Austrian football
team that had defeated, in Alvalade, Sporting by 2-3 for the Champions League
and was heading to the Bairro Alto area to spend the evening.
Songs at
the beginning of the evening
Before
the start of the People's Assembly, at 8:30 pm, chants of "the square is
ours and it will be, the square is ours until we die".
The
intervention of a participant promising a return of the tents to the square had
been greatly applauded before the vote, giving a hint of what the result would
be.
At the
popular assembly on Tuesday, even after the intervention of the PSP to remove
them, it was voted to set up tents again this Wednesday.
Between
demonstrations and the so-called encampments, with hundreds or thousands of
demonstrators, the current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto
on October 10 and have expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated
concentrations in other cities, days after the parliamentary approval of the
new rental law, now under discussion in the specialty.
The
initiatives, promoted by civic movements and disseminated through social
networks, demand measures that respond to the crisis in the sector, the control
of the prices of essential goods and fuel and defend taxes on the extraordinary
profits of large companies in the banking sector.
On
October 15, the movement that was protesting in Porto, with a camp, denounced a
violent police charge during the night that caused injuries to 39 of the
participants, two of whom were in serious condition, and a police officer. In
Lisbon, the authorities removed dozens of tents from Rossio early Tuesday
morning and detained 55 protesters, who will appear before a judge on the 27th.
The
promoters of the protests promise to continue on the streets.
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