Sunday, August 17, 2014

Police denounce bets to hit guards after attack on … – Reuters

             


                     
                 


                     
                 

             

 
                     

The Autonomous (ANAG-GNR) National Guard Association of the GNR denounced the existence of bets to hit police after last Saturday, five men of this corporation have had to receive hospital treatment following the assault at a rave party in Alentejo. A meeting will be made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Miguel Macedo, to demand greater efficiency in punishing assaults on police officers.


                 


                     The most recent case took place at a party rave in Alentejo dam of Maynooth, but among the cases reported by the association’s president, Virgil Minister, is that of young French tourists who assault guards Albufeira to win bets “They are individuals from the suburbs of Paris, come to the Algarve and make bets. Until it comes to betting 100 euros in how they can attack specific military, which is the special body and therefore adrenaline is higher. ” The problem is not new:. Since last year there were those who had struck the military in Albufeira GNR simply to make money

“Has there been many assaults,” complains Virgil Minister, whatever Miguel Macedo intercede by guards from the Ministry of Justice, so that, in cases of assaults on law enforcement officers, “the processes more efficient and quicker.” The ANAG-GNR calls on judicial authorities to effectively punish those who knocks on GNR.

“Any citizens in other European countries, who commit crimes against the security forces are tried, convicted exemplary and are prevented from enter this country four or five years, “exemplifies the association leader. In Portugal, compares the authors of attacks on members of the security forces “are going to court, get with term of identity and residence, go away, nothing happens and impunity persists. So that it becomes banal assaulting a police officer. “

” What are judged. There hither terms of identity and residence, the individual is present in court and judged, “Minister defends Virgil, warning that” if it catches on organized groups in Portugal “, and the punishment is not exemplary, the elements of aggression security forces will increase.

In case the dam of Maynooth, in Ferreira do Alentejo, GNR could not even hold any of his attackers. The guards had been called there on Saturday by the owners of the campsite of Markádia, installed about three decades along the bayou, after the campers have complained of “deafening” noise projected by powerful speakers illegal rave. “We have customers who come to us because of the quietness and beauty of the place,” explained an element of Markádia. “Most abandoned the place, were only the toughest.” About fifty soldiers from the GNR who went to the site was received by some of the ravers the stone. Also target throwing sticks, five of the guards had to receive treatment at the Hospital of Beja. “They appeared in the parish a bit scared,” says another resident in Maynooth. For security reasons even had to leave the interior of the enclosure mounted to the festival, to position themselves abroad.

On balance made about what happened yesterday, Lieutenant Colonel Joaquim Figueiredo, Command of the GNR Beja, admitted that the corporation had “a shot in the air” when the situation appeared more tense admitted. But one of the cars of GNR had a gunshot wound 22 gauge, which is not the caliber used by security forces. Three others also were left with broken glass. The ravers end later abandoning the place to go of his own free will, without further incident.

The first festival-goers began arriving in the Internet combined party logo on Thursday . “There were few” recalls a young resident of the parish. But the next day they go to see “many caravans and people with dreadlocks and a little dirty” the overwhelming majority British, French, Belgian and Spanish. And there were already thousands, the maid of a restaurant / inn nearby account.

Who will clean up the garbage that was in an ecological reserve? In a
small rise covered in mounted and overlooking the lagoon panorama of Maynooth ground who watched yesterday was heartbreaking. Hundreds of campers, tents large, medium and small occupied the margins of this reserve of water for agriculture irrigation Alqueva system and within a territory that integrates local Nacional.O Ecological Reserve is “prohibited the practice of noisy activities and the use of horns and other sound equipment, “says a resolution of Council of Ministers 2007 This did not prevent, in recent days, the movement of vehicles all-terrain cars and trucks. Neither party performing the rave .


                 
 
                 
             

                 

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