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Foreign citizens staying at the facilities of the Foreigners and Borders Service at Lisbon airport will have a panic button in their rooms.
The measure appears in the new regulation of the Equipped Space to Temporary Installation Center (EECIT), advances the Diário de Notícias. “To safeguard the citizen installed, the individual rooms are equipped with a panic button that, when activated, requires registration in a report, indicating the time and reason that determined its activation and communication thereof to the head of EECIT” , indicates the regulation, signed in July by the Minister of Internal Administration and distributed by the SEF on November 26, says the DN, who points out, citing an official source from the security service, that the change was already known to those responsible. space and has been in place since August.
The facilities in question, at Lisbon airport, had been ordered to close and remodel by order of Eduardo Cabrita, after the death, on March 12, of the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homeniuk, who led the Public Ministry to accuse three inspectors of the SEF. , whose trial will begin on January 20, and the General Inspection of Internal Administration (IGAI) also concluded that there was “action and omission” of nine more inspectors.
According to the same newspaper, Panic buttons are installed in the 18 new individual rooms. (Until now the accommodations were dormitories) and linked to the EECIT ordinance, where the SEF inspectors and security guards will always be. When Ihor died, according to the Public Ministry after the beating, there were no SEF inspectors permanently on the premises; security was in charge of security guards from a private company, who illegally assumed functions of public authority.
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