The sole deputy of the PAN announced this Friday that she will request an audience with the Minister of Internal Affairs and the IGAI after the news that elements of the PSP and GNR have published racist and xenophobic messages on social networks.
????????The PAN will request the hearing of the Minister of the Interior, the audience of the Inspector General of the Internal Administration (IGAI) and also the representatives of the police forces. We believe that, in order to restore the trust of citizens in these criminal police forces, information, transparency and scrutiny are essential,” Inês de Sousa Real declared in a video message sent to the newsrooms.
The only PAN deputy considered that, if the news is confirmed indicating that elements of the GNR and the PSP shared racist and xenophobic messages on social networks, these facts “Not only are they very serious, but they must be investigated and taken to the last consequences.”
“A tree does not make the forest, we know that there are men and women strongly committed to their mission and to the protection of each and every one of us, but until this episode is fully clarified, there will be a wave of suspicions that will not it is neither desirable nor healthy”, he stressed.
Regarding the political dimension of the news —according to investigations, more than 75% of the 591 members of the security forces investigated by journalists show sympathy for Chega, with some party affiliates—, Inês de Sousa Real asked the Court to Constitutional intervention.
We believe that this deserves the attention of the Constitutional Court, because it is not acceptable that our Constitution provides that there cannot be fascist, racist, or xenophobic agendas from a political point of view, and then we become aware of facts of this nature,” he said. he said she.
BE and PCP have also already requested an urgent hearing from the Minister of Internal Administration in this context.
A consortium of investigative journalists released a report by Pedro Coelho, Filipe Teles, Cláudia Marques Santos and Paulo Pena on SIC, Setenta e Quatro, Expresso and Público, which shows that social networks serve what the law and internal regulations prohibit , based on more than three thousand posts by GNR soldiers and PSP agents in recent years.
On Wednesday it was announced that the General Inspectorate of Internal Administration will open an investigation into the veracity of the news that refers to the publication, by agents of the Security Forces and Corps, of messages on social networks with discriminatory content and that incite to hate.
In a note from the office of the Minister of the Interior Administration, it is said that José Luís Carneiro ordered the General Inspectorate of the Interior Administration (IGAI) “to open an immediate investigation to determine the veracity of the evidence contained in today’s news.” [quarta-feira] on the alleged publication, by agents of the security forces, of messages on social networks with discriminatory content, incitement to hatred and violence against certain people”.
Source: Observadora
