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Abdul Bashir
On the morning of 28 March 2023, two Portuguese women belonging to the staff of the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon, Ismaili Muslim Centre in Lisbon were stabbed to death. The alert was received by Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) at 10.57am and Abdul Bashir, an Afghan refugee enrolled at the centre, was arrested. A professor of Portuguese for foreigners at the centre and a female Afghan refugee attending Portuguese language classes were threatened at knifepoint and injured. On 29 March, Luís Neves, the national director of the Polícia Judiciária ruled out terrorism citing no "minimum evidence" of radicalization attributing the stabbing to the perpetrator's "psychotic outbreak". But on 31 March, the Public Prosecution Service (Portugal), Public Prosecution Service did not rule out terrorism as the motive of the crime, which was still under investigation. Perpetrator Abdul Bashir, a widowed 28-year-old Afghan refugee and father of three children aged 9, 7 and 4, had arrived to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Operations Group (Portugal)
The Special Operations Group () is the police tactical unit of the Polícia de Segurança Pública, Public Security Police (PSP), the national police force of Portugal. GOE was created in 1982 and has around 200 operatives. Although a police unit, the GOE is employed worldwide, similar to the French GIGN or to the German GSG 9. History In 1978, ''Quinta das Águas Livres'' in Sintra was acquired and the construction works of the infrastructures necessary to organise the instruction activities and to accommodate the distinct elements that would form a future operational group began. Alongside, also began studies regarding the creation of the GOE and, with the co-operation of the United Kingdom, British government, thanks to the efforts of Mota Pinto's government, elements of the Special Air Service, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) came to Portugal to train and start the formation of a police group able to conduct anti-terrorist missions. On March 29, 1982, the first ''CO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
