The Public Security Police (PSP) were called on Thursday by a school in Amadora, in the Lisbon district, who alerted them to a brawl between young people, and identified four people, a police source said today.
According to the spokesman for the PSP’s Lisbon Metropolitan Command (Cometlis), commissioner Artur Serafim, the management of the Seomara da Costa Primo Secondary School alerted Lusa to “a disturbance involving bladed weapons”.
The presence of weapons was confirmed through the video surveillance system that exists in the municipality of Amadora, but when the PSP arrived on the scene, the reported situation had already ended and, after searching the surroundings, none of the five youngsters mentioned by the school were apprehended.
The school then reported that some of the young people concerned had returned to the school and it was at this point that the PSP identified four people, aged 18 and 19, some of them pupils, for “taking part in a brawl”, the same source said, pointing out that the brawl involved “rival youth groups”.
Although no weapons were seized, one of them confessed that he was in possession of a knife, which he threw in the garbage can, but which was not found by the PSP, said the spokesman.
The PSP has no indication of any injuries or other damage.
The identification of the young people has been communicated to the Family and Minors Court.
Commissioner Artur Serafim recalled that this and other educational establishments are accompanied by the Safe School program.
