PSD acusa PS de ter comprometido segurança nacional com gestão da imigração

 

O PSD acusou hoje o PS de ter comprometido a segurança nacional com a gestão que fez da imigração e desafiou-o a esclarecer se é favorável à criação de uma unidade de estrangeiros e fronteiras na PSP.

Numa declaração aos jornalistas na sede nacional do PSD, em Lisboa, o vice-presidente do partido, Carlos Coelho, disse ser verdade a notícia do Jornal de Notícias, divulgada hoje, segundo a qual o Governo do PS "abriu a porta a 120 mil imigrantes sem verificar registo criminal".

"O PS é responsável pela total irresponsabilidade na gestão da imigração. Não é irrazoável dizer que o PS pôs em causa a segurança nacional e o humanismo com que devemos receber quem entra legitimamente em Portugal", disse.

Carlos Coelho reforçou que "o PS comprometeu a segurança e o bom acolhimento" e afirmou que, "por muito que custe" aos socialistas e ao Chega, "o Governo da AD, em onze meses, regulou a imigração, com segurança e humanismo".

"Só não fomos mais eficazes, importa reconhecê-lo, porque o Chega aliou-se ao PS para que não houvesse uma unidade de estrangeiros e fronteiras na Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP)", referiu, acrescentando que os dois partidos recusaram também um "novo regime rápido e eficaz de afastamento de quem está em situação irregular no território nacional".

O vice-presidente do PSD defendeu que "uma política responsável de imigração tem de ter as duas componentes: tem de regular a imigração legal e tem de combater a imigração irregular".

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José Luís Carneiro diz que imigrantes da CPLP foram sujeitos a verificações de segurança

O ex-ministro da Administração Interna frisou que a atribuição de residência temporária de um ano destinada a cidadãos da CPLP foi aprovada na Assembleia da República “com o acordo de todos os partidos”. O ex-ministro da Administração Interna José Luís Carneiro afirmou esta sexta-feira que os imigrantes da CPLP que obtiveram autorização de residência automática foram sujeitos a verificações de segurança, criticando o PSD por fazer “política partidária” com este tema.

O Jornal de Notícias noticiou que o “Governo PS abriu a porta a 120 mil imigrantes sem verificar o registo criminal”, devido à autorização de residência automática, criada em 2023 para imigrantes oriundos da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP).

Segundo o jornal, esse mecanismo fez com processos de manifestação de interesse fossem automaticamente transformados em autorizações de residência de um ano para cidadãos da CPLP, sem que tenham sido verificados manualmente os documentos submetidos, como por exemplo o registo criminal.

O jornal indica que, de acordo com uma fonte, crimes cometidos em Portugal ou alertas internacionais, designadamente da Interpol ou da Europol, eram automaticamente verificados através da base de dados de segurança nacional, mas não se detetava se um determinado requerente tinha cometido crimes no seu país de origem.

Esta notícia levou o vice-presidente do PSD, Carlos Coelho, a acusar hoje o PS de ter comprometido a segurança nacional devido à sua gestão da imigração.

Numa nota escrita enviada à agência Lusa, o ex-ministro da Administração Interna José Luís Carneiro frisou que a atribuição de residência temporária de um ano destinada a cidadãos da CPLP foi aprovada na Assembleia da República “com o acordo de todos os partidos”.

“Fez parte da implementação do acordo de mobilidade da CPLP e teve em vista dar resposta primeiramente aos cidadãos da CPLP já a viver em Portugal e com manifestações de interesse válidas”, disse.

José Luís Carneiro acrescentou que os procedimentos de segurança definidos para a concessão de autorizações de residência temporária exigem sempre “a consulta oficiosa pelos serviços de registo criminal português, bem como as bases de dados do Sistema de Segurança Interna (SIS), que interage, entre outras, com as informações da Interpol e da Europol”.

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"Farsa inventada pela polícia" - Detenção de duas jornalistas chinesas em Macau é "violação da lei", Portugal sem reação

Duas jornalistas do jornal online independente em língua chinesa All About Macau foram detidas na quinta-feira e passaram quase 12 horas na esquadra, após se terem insurgido contra o facto de ser-lhes negado acesso à sala do plenário da assembleia legislativa de Macau para cobertura jornalística. O caso foi encaminhado para o Ministério Público da região. Caso sejam acusadas, podem incorrer numa pena de multa ou até três anos de prisão. 

De acordo com um comunicado do Corpo de Polícia de Segurança Pública de Macau, “após investigação, há fortes indícios de que as duas jornalistas são suspeitas da prática do crime de perturbação do funcionamento de órgãos da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau”, neste caso no parlamento local.

O advogado Jorge Menezes, que também é residente permanente em Macau e exerce atividade em Portugal e na Região Administrativa Especial Chinesa, sublinha, em entrevista à TSF, que as duas jornalistas foram “ilegalmente detidas”.

Bastante crítico da erosão dos direitos e liberdades fundamentais em Macau, sobretudo desde os protestos em Hong Kong (2019), Jorge Menezes afirma que “não se pode deter ninguém para identificação, a não ser que seja suspeito da prática de algum crime. Mas o que não se pode mesmo é deter uma pessoa para ser identificada, quando ela está identificada. Isto é claramente uma violação da lei”.

Jorge Menezes salienta que o objetivo das autoridades locais “é espalhar o medo e silenciar os jornalistas” e, indiretamente, a própria comunidade.

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Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

 

Global drug trafficking could be “easily dismantled” if coke was “sold like wine,” according to the Latin American leader. 

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting that cocaine is “not worse than whiskey” and that it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America. 

Colombia, the world's largest producer and exporter of cocaine, has spent decades fighting drug trafficking, but the country's left-wing president claimed the drug was being scapegoated by American politicians, who have waged the war on drugs for decades.

“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey,” Petro said during a six-hour-long government meeting.

“Scientists have analyzed this: cocaine is not worse than whiskey,” he added, suggesting that the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.

“If somebody wants peace, the business [of drug trafficking] has to be dismantled,” Petro said. “It could be easily dismantled if they legalized cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”

By contrast, Petro pointed out that fentanyl, a contributor to the opioid crisis in the United States, “is killing Americans, but it's not made in Colombia.”

“Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals" and those who used it “became addicted,” he added.

Petro has already been at odds with new U.S. President Donald Trump, after his country initially barred American military planes from landing with returning migrants aboard.

Trump's administration responded by threatening to impose punitive tariffs on Colombian exports to the U.S., pushing Bogotá to agree to accept the migrants "without restriction or delay," according to the White House.

Cocaine production in Colombia reached a record high in 2023, jumping by 53 percent to more than 2,600 tons, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

France reels after double prison guard killing - and the National Rally is their preference

 

“You can do a hold-up without killing. They didn’t have to kill.”

Outside La Santé prison in central Paris, feelings are running high. Thirty or 40 prison officers are holding a protest over Tuesday’s murder of two colleagues at an ambush at a motorway toll in Normandy.

A banner reads: “Prisons in Mourning.”

“You put a gun to the guard’s head and say ‘let him go or I shoot’. Of course the guard is going to obey. And no-one dies,” one officer says.

“Hold-ups happen. It could have been anyone of us in the van. But they didn’t have to kill,” adds another.

It is the callousness of the assault that has most upset prison officers – and the French public in general.

Gone is any semblance of a semi-mythical code of honour linked to the “good old days” of le grand banditisme. Back then, it was said, bandits never set out to take a life.

Now - it seems - they do. “There was no opening discussion. Their first words were a salvo of gunfire,” says one of the guards at La Santé.

The government has promised that every possible means will be deployed to recapture Mohamed Amra, and the gang that sprung him as he was returned to jail from a court hearing in Rouen.

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With European elections approaching, Tuesday’s drama is grist to the mill for the far-right, already riding high in the polls. Marine Le Pen's National Rally’s call for tougher policing and tougher penalties clearly strikes a chord.

At La Santé many of the prison staff are black – originally from Africa or the Caribbean.

“We were all brought up in a world of the political left,” says one, named Geoff. “But we are moving to the right. I can’t speak for the others, but I will be voting for the (far-right) National Rally.”

 

 

French prison attacks are 'terrorism' says justice minister

 

France's Justice Minister said the government would not give in to "acts of intimidation" after a wave of attacks targeting prisons across the country.

On Monday night, vehicles were set alight outside several French prisons and one jail was hit by gunfire, in what Gérald Darmanin described as "terrorist attacks".

Seven prisons have been targeted, in Toulon, Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France, and in Villepinte and Nanterre, near Paris.

Darmanin suggested the attacks which began on Sunday were a response to the government's crackdown on drug trafficking. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has launched an investigation.

On Tuesday, Darmanin visited Toulon's La Farlede prison where gunmen opened fired on the prison gate with a Kalashnikov.

"I am delighted that the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has taken action because this is extremely serious," he told reporters. "These are terrorist attacks."

He added that "significant means" were being employed to find the perpetrators and they would be given "extremely severe sentences".

Darmanin indicated that the "acts of intimidation against prison workers" were related to government efforts to tackle drug crime.

"It might also be because we hit them where it hurts," he said, "and for the first time in decades, France is taking extremely serious measures against drug trafficking."

Earlier on Tuesday, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the government's response must be "relentless".

"Those who attack prisons and officers deserve to be locked up in those prisons and monitored by those officers," he posted on X.

He added that he had instructed police to immediately strengthen security at prison facilities.

The prison guard union, FO Justice, expressed its "deepest concern and anger" following the "extremely serious" attacks overnight.

The union posted updates from the aftermath of several attacks on X, including images of burnt-out vehicles in prison car parks and bullet holes in the Toulon prison entrance gate.

It called for urgent government action to protect prison staff.

Another union, Ufap-Unsa Justice, said there were not enough officers to secure prison perimeters "24/7".

Ufap said that staff vehicles were among those set on fire outside the jails in Villepinte, Aix-Luynes, Nanterre and Valence.

The union condemned the "cowardly and heinous attacks [that] aim to terrorise those who embody the authority of the state".

In Nancy, a prison officer was reportedly threatened at their home, while in Marseille, an attempted arson attack targeted prison officers' accommodation.

Monday night's attacks come after seven vehicles were set on fire in a similar attack on France's national school of prison administration on Sunday, according to FO Justice.

"It is worrying to note that some people no longer hesitate to directly attack the prison's property, a symbol of state authority," it said in a statement.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Parisien reports that the letters DDPF - meaning "French prisoners' rights" - were found inscribed on damaged vehicles. The AFP news agency says anarchist slogans were found at some sites.

AFP quotes a source close to the case as saying the attacks appeared to be coordinated and "clearly linked" to the government's strategy against drug trafficking.

Darmanin and Retailleau have vowed to tackle the scourge of drug trafficking and drug-related violence in France amid a rise in gang-related crime.

In February, the interior ministry announced a record number of cocaine seizures in the first 11 months of 2024 - 53.5 tonnes, a rise of 130% on the 23.2 tonnes seized in 2023. Retailleau said France had been hit by a "white tsunami".

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Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was 'in poor area'

 

A family of former asylum-seekers from Somalia are living in a £2.1million luxury townhouse in one of Britain's most exclusive addresses at a cost to taxpayers of £8,000 a month.

Abdi and Sayruq Nur and their seven children moved into their three-storey property in a fashionable area of London last month because they didn't like the 'poorer' part of the city they were living in.

Mr Nur, 42, an unemployed bus conductor, and his 40-year-old wife, who has never worked, are now living in Kensington despite the fact that they are totally dependent on state benefits.

They live close to celebrities, including artist Lucian Freud, singer Damon Albarn and designer Stella McCartney, and their home is just minutes from the fashionable Kensington Place restaurant which was a favourite haunt of the late Princess Diana.

The family's new home is believed to be one of the most expensive houses ever paid for by housing benefit, which is administered by local councils but funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.

The disclosure that a single family has been paid so much will embarrass Ministers, who last month pledged to rein in Britain's £20billion-a-year housing benefit bill.

Mr Nur said his former five-bedroom home in the Kensal Rise area of Brent, which cost £900 a week in housing benefit, was suitable for the family's needs but he said they had felt compelled to move because they did not like living 'in a very poor area' and were unhappy with the quality of local shops and schools.

He said he found the new house through a friend who knew the landlord, arranged to rent it through an estate agent, then approached officials at Kensington and Chelsea council who said 'it would be no problem' to move.

Rules allow anyone who is eligible for housing benefit to claim for a private property in any part of the country they wish.

The £2,000 per week is paid directly to Mr Nur and his family, who then pay their landlord.

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Imigrantes e subsídios

 

Em Portugal, uma família de imigrantes - pai e mãe, ambos desempregados - com oito filhos recebe de subsídios mensais um total de:

• Abono de Família: 1.242,14 €

• RSI: 1.380,75 €

• Total: 2.622,89 €