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  • 27 NOVEMBER 2024
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AIMA situation must be resolved "very soon"

The Minister of Internal Administration, Margarida Blasco, said today that the situation at the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA), in Lisbon, where immigrants have been queuing since dawn, will have to be resolved "very shortly".

AIMA situation must be resolved "very soon"
Notícias ao Minuto

13:37 - 14/05/24 por Lusa

País MAI

"We are aware and the situation will have to be resolved very soon", said Margarida Blasco to journalists in Ourém (Santarém), where she was present at the presentation of the Special Rural Fire Fighting Device for 2024.

Questioned about the way the Government will resolve this situation, the government official acknowledged that it is a "human issue", which concerns everyone.

"And, therefore, the Government will, with all certainty, resolve this situation as soon as possible and then it will tell you how it will do it", she stated.

Confronted with the news, from Rádio Renascença, that a 9-year-old Nepalese boy was "lynched" at a school in Lisbon, Margarida Blasco stated that "all crimes, and especially hate crimes, are extremely serious".

"What I can say is that, together with the police authorities, we will reinforce both the policing near schools, and community policing, in order to reposition the device to prevent, which is a first phase", guaranteed the government official.

The minister also considered that "all Portuguese people legitimize what is being done".

"As a Government, and we, at the Ministry of Internal Administration together with the Ministry of Education, with the Ministry of Health, intend to create faster, more effective programmes, to avoid these situations", added Margarida Blasco.

According to Renascença, a 9-year-old boy, of Nepalese nationality, was violently attacked by other colleagues at a school in Lisbon, earlier this year.

The complaint was made to the radio station by the executive director of a Church institution, the Centro Padre Alves Correia, who considered "the motivations of the other minors were xenophobic and racist".

In the early hours of 4 May, several immigrants were attacked in three different locations in the city of Porto. In one of the cases, the attack took place in the house of 10 immigrants, on Rua do Bonfim, which was invaded by a group of 10 men.

At least two of the victims received assistance at the Hospital de São João. Six men were identified and one was arrested for possession of an illegal weapon, having been brought to court and remanded in custody.

Read Also: 9-year-old Nepalese boy attacked by five colleagues at a school in Lisbon (Portuguese version)

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