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Racial issues in Portuguese society motivated this afternoon an "exchange of words" between anti-racist movements and activists of the National Renewal Party (PNR), during two simultaneous events in the Rossio region in Lisbon . The verbal confrontation between the two groups occurred when the PNR arrived outside São Domingos, where a concentration of antiracist associations formed of representatives of Afro-descendant movements, SOS Racism, was formed. , Ghetto Platform, Black Conscience and Brazilian House Lisbon. Despite some insults between the elements of the two groups, there was no physical confrontation, since there were elements of the PSP.
The anti-racist demonstration, which gathered a hundred people, called, through social networks. , by the association Djass and came about following several cases of "racial discrimination", namely the assault in Porto of a young woman of Colombian origin. "The episode that took place in Porto and the trial of the Alfragide police are the tip of the iceberg that reinforced the convocation of this concentration," he explained to the agency Lassa Beatriz Gomes, of the association Djass, a few minutes before the arrival of the PNR. The activist pointed out that "it is very difficult to discuss racism in Portugal" because it is considered a "non-subject". "Institutional racism, which we consider as systemic in Portuguese society, and which crosses innumerable institutions, conditions the lives of blacks and blacks in Portugal".
On the other hand, the president of the PNR, José Pinto Coelho, accompanied by a dozen activists, accused these anti-racist movements of being promoted by a "racist agenda of the past." extreme left ", denying the existence of a racist sentiment in Portugal. "Associations such as SOS racism, which are paid for by all of us, are, in essence, fomenting the greatest racism in Portugal, in Portugal there has never been racism, they are creating a wave of racism. of racism, he attested.
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