A man has been arrested by police in connection to an attack on the March for Life in Lisbon, Portugal, on Saturday when an improvised explosive device was thrown into a crowd of attendees.
According to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP), at the time of the attack around 500 people were gathered outside the Assembly of the Republic in the Portuguese capital, and several minors were present, including babies. After the attack, which fortunately wasn’t fatal as the device didn’t go off, several individuals “of anarchist affiliations” fled the scene. “The suspect approached the area where the demonstrators were gathered and threw an improvised incendiary device of the ‘Molotov cocktail’ type, containing gasoline, in the direction of those present.
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Source: CRUX NEWS
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