AIMA delegation evacuated in Anjos due to bomb threat

A bomb threat early Wednesday afternoon forced the evacuation of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) office in Anjos, Lisbon. No casualties were reported.

A source from the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the Public Security Police (Cometlis) confirmed to Observador that the site had been evacuated but was now "operating normally." A man had allegedly planted the bomb inside the building, and the PSP (Public Security Police) went to the scene and activated the Special Police Unit's Explosives Disposal and Underground Security Center.

No devices were found during the inspections and the delegation was reopened.

However, Manuela Niza, president of the Migration Technicians' Union (STM), told Observador a different story: the union leader reports that two Algerian men entered the AIMA office in Anjos "with firearms ." "My colleagues were threatened with firearms, and that's what prompted the call to the PSP."

The leader does not deny that there may have been a "bomb threat" afterwards, but it was the fact that "two men pulled out two revolvers" that led to the PSP being called in the first instance.