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The University of Porto denounced to the Public Ministry alleged acts of xenophobia and racism on the part of students and professors of the Faculties of Engineering and Letters, denounced by a student movement, confirmed this Sunday to the Portuguese source of this academy.
“Given that xenophobic discrimination is a criminal matter, we denounced these events to the Public Ministry on October 30,” said the same source.
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) told Lusa that “the facts in question are subject to investigation by the DIAP [Departamento de Investigação e Acção Penal] from Porto ”.
The news of the complaint to the Public Ministry was released this Sunday by Newspaper.
In October, the leader of the Academic Quarantine movement, Ana Isabel Silva, revealed that she had received complaints from foreign students, mainly of Brazilian nationality, for “acts of xenophobia and racism” practiced by students and teachers, specifically from the Engineering and Engineering faculties. Letters. especially on social media.
Ana Isabel Silva added that, initially, the Brazilian students themselves reported the situation to the rectory.
“They were told by the rectory that the university did not tolerate these behaviors,” said Ana Isabel Silva, noting that these events have been recorded since the beginning of this academic year, but have increased with the pandemic, on social networks.
At that time, the university appealed “to all students who report and report the facts they are aware of to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the aggressors.”
On October 19, in the message to the academic community, the rector, António Sousa Pereira, said that he could not tolerate in the academic community “any attitude of xenophobia, racism, machismo, discrimination or defamatory attitudes and attacks on good names and individual dignity ”. .
“We call on all teachers, students and non-teaching workers to honor the superior character of our institution, whether in the academic and scientific fields, as well as in the ethical, moral, social and linguistic fields with which we communicate”, he said, on the occasion. .
