Youth shot dead in clash

Press, 12 June 1978, Page 9

Youth shot dead in clash

NZPA-Reuter Lisbon.; A 19-year-old youth has. died of gunshot wends and five other people were injured by stones in clashes m: central Lisbon between Right and Left-wing demon-: sra'ors around the statue of | Portugal’s national poet,; Luis de Camoes, hospital' (officials have said. The police were on the (alert in the northern city of Oporto where Right-wingers had also called nationalist! 'demonstrations. In Lisbon, the police said . they f'red warning bursts . |into the air with aa*o-. tic] irifles to disperse 'he demon-j 'sfrators. who clashed with; ; clubs and stones during cele-i J brations of Portugal Day] ]; commemorating the six-! teenth-century poet and the; Portuguese communities. j : Eye-witnesses said they ! ia!so heard shots in the ’jerow. No arrests were re- ] ported. The trouble began when. ■; Le f t.-w ing e r s shouting ■“Down with fascism" tried •ito break up a demonstration ’iby about 300 Right-wing • vo tths around the Camoes statue in a Lisbon Square. r; Some of the Right-wingers I used the Fascist salute as! rr'nev placed flowers at the. • base of the statue and ig; the national anthem.