“In a serious European Union, Mr Dijsselbloem would already have been fired”, prime minister António Costa told reporters last night as remarks by the Eurogroup president given to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung sparked a storm of indignation, and the occasional burst of satire.
The tragic case of an unborn baby who died in his mother’s womb as she waited to be attended at Guarda hospital last month has reached a conclusion. The doctor in charge did not proceed according to leges artis and is therefore seen as “responsible”.
However, the internal inquiry is recommending archival on the basis that health chiefs have no disciplinary powers over the doctor, who was working ‘part time’.
With the “white genocide” in South Africa barely reported by foreign media, Portuguese newspapers have carried the story this week of two brothers from Madeira fatally shot in the head after opening their butchers business in Pretoria on Monday.
The attack followed a raid on the shop in December, and the kidnapping for a cash ransom of a family member in January.
A third brother missed becoming a victim by being late into work, reports Correio da Manhã.
The body of a woman, aged around 50, was discovered floating in the Tejo river in Lisbon on Monday. Initial reports suggest the body showed no signs of violence. Police inquiries have failed so far to uncover any reports of people missing that might tally with the woman’s description. The body is believed to have been in the water for two days, says Correio da Manhã.
A ‘mega police operation’ mounted by the PJ’s counter-terrorism unit has finally rounded up the men responsible for the mayhem unleashed on a Sunday in February 2016 in which a father of two was fatally shot as he drove his family to a birthday party (click here).
The six men, all from the Sintra area near Lisbon, are due to appear in court on Tuesday.
Initially reported to have numbered seven, the six are all known for violent crimes, reports Correio da Manhã.
Group Lena - the company cited in Portugal’s long-running Operation Marquês involving former prime minister José Sócrates - has failed in a bid to see university professor and former presidential candidate Paulo Morais prosecuted for defamation. Morais labelled the company “the Portuguese State’s largest supplier” on air last year, and talked about “exchange of favours”. Judges agreed his comments were impolite but nonetheless “tolerated in a democratic plural State”.
Lena had been asking for damages of €100,000.
In the latest shock to hit the world’s meat industry, Portugal is believed to have imported 524 tons of Brazil’s ‘suspect meat’, highlighted in the “Carne Fraca” scandal that hit the South American country last Friday.
Público broke the story today, admitting nonetheless that Portugal’s imports are negligible compared to Brazil’s 150 other markets.
Since the Resident (and algarvedailynews) highlighted the case of two British theatre VIPs caught up in the Ria Formosa demolitions debacle, major news services in Portugal have started covering the story.
SIC, Público, Expresso have all featured the plight of Paul Roseby and James Tod who are both working hard “behind the scenes” to save their dream home on the island of Armona from government-backed bulldozers.
