Schools and universities in Portugal paint themselves with messages against Brazilians, blacks and gypsies | World

The vandalism occurred at the entrance to secondary schools in the neighborhoods of Portela, Sacavém and Olivais, as well as the Portuguese Catholic University and the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE). A refugee reception center in the Bobadela region was also attacked.

Images of messages circulate on social networks. Among them are the following phrases:

• “Zucas (pejorative term used to refer to Brazilians), go back to the favelas! We don’t want you here! “
• “Death to blacks, for a white university”
• “Portugal is white. Blacks go back to Africa! “
• “Death to the gypsies. The Portuguese say yes to racism “
• “Long live white Europe”

The Metropolitan Command of the Lisbon Public Security Police reports that “so far no possible suspect has been identified.” The events “are reported as criminal situations,” the police added.

The Portuguese Secretary of Education spoke about the case on social media: “We cannot accept that someone writes so many years after Rosa Parks. We cannot stop denouncing that these attitudes are increasingly legitimized by people who, having grown up in a democracy, sigh, speak and yearn for the return to whatever regime they miss without ever having known, “he said.

“You only managed to generate one happy thought: your silly writing was out of school! Racism has no place inside ”, he added.

The director of the School Group of Portela and Moscavide, Nuno Reis, says that the solution to the problem is “Pay as little attention as possible to these situations”, as unpleasant as they are. “This year is already the third time,” he told the newspaper “Público.”