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"I would like to kill myself". Man arrested for bomb threat at Chega headquarters
"I have just been informed that someone has entered or tried to enter our headquarters. He said he was carrying an explosive device and wanted to kill me", said André Ventura.
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"I was just informed that someone had entered or tried to enter our headquarters. He said that he was carrying an explosive device and that he wanted to kill me", André Ventura explained to journalists in Madeira.
According to the Chega leader, a "security perimeter" was set up next to the party's headquarters and the Parliament due to a "bomb threat".
"Chega will contact the authorities throughout the day and will check if there is any danger here where I am [in Funchal] or if it is an isolated situation", he added.
Ventura considered it "regrettable that this escalation of violence may continue".
To Notícias ao Minuto, a source from the PSP's Lisbon Metropolitan Command confirmed that it received a bomb threat alert at Chega's headquarters at 9:42 am.
The same source added that an "individual entered with a backpack" and "walked through the building", saying that he had "explosive devices" in his possession.
A security perimeter was set up around the building and traffic on the surrounding roads was cut off. Upon the arrival of the Explosives Deactivation and Underground Safety Centre (CIEXSS), "no explosives were found".
The suspect, "for presenting incoherent behaviour", will be hospitalised under the mental health law. When asked if threats were made to André Ventura, the PSP did not confirm.
The PSP spokesman, Sérgio Soares, told Lusa that "there may be a psychological issue", noting that the contents of the backpack have not yet been confirmed.
Sérgio Soares did not confirm how many resources were deployed to the scene and indicated that there were no injuries.
Chega's press office said that the alert was given around 11:30 am and reported that a man entered the party's headquarters with a backpack, approached an employee and asked for the leader, André Ventura, and "said that he was going to place a bomb in the building".
In a statement released practically at the same time that André Ventura was speaking to journalists, the party claimed that "all this arises as a result of the climate of hatred and cancellation that the far left has created, in recent weeks, based on statements, from other benches, in the face of freedom of expression and the policy of persecution".
Chega considered "it totally unacceptable that 50 years after the 25th of April there are still episodes of this type" and repudiated "any type of violent behaviour".
[News updated at 12:46 pm]
Read Also: Madeira. Chega and PSD "are hand in hand to prolong the region's evil" (Portuguese version)
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