The security forces of Portugal have arrested an 18-year-old who planned to attack this Friday at the University of Lisbon, where he would have planned to unleash chaos with a view to later acting with various types of knives.
The arrest came on Thursday, after the FBI alerted the Portuguese authorities of an imminent attack plan, according to sources quoted by the Lusa agency.
the suspect He was arrested at his house in the Olivais neighborhood, where documents were also located that collected their presumed intentions. The Judicial Police has ensured that the search allowed “confirming” the “initial suspicions”, to the extent that elements likely to be used in the attack were seized.
The researchers suspect that the young man wanted first to cause explosions with small cylinders in the Faculty of Sciences and then, taking advantage of the chaos, act with knives, machetes or even a crossbow, reports the RTP chain.
The authorities work with the hypothesis that this young man, of Portuguese nationality, acted alone and is not part of any organization. The suspect has already gone this Friday morning to judicial offices, waiting to know the measures that are adopted against him while the investigations continue.
The faculty, meanwhile, tries to continue with its usual activity and has even maintained the planned teaching activity.
Source: Lasexta
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