Headlines: 12 February 2022
What’s making the headlines in the main Portuguese media outlets this morning.
Lusa
- ORDER OF ENGINEERS: Elections for the Order of Engineers end today
- FIREFIGHTERS: Firefighting should be the exclusive preserve of firefighters
- FIREFIGHTERS: President of the League of Firefighters accuses GNR of “unfair competition” in fighting fires
RTP
- MADEIRA: PJ detains man suspected of killing homeless man in Madeira
- FIREFIGHTERS: League of Firefighters criticises “chronic underfunding” given to corporations by the state
Expresso
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: João, PsychoticNerd#6116, was planning a killing spree and setting block 3 of the Faculty of Science on fire at 1.20pm this Friday. He had blowtorches, two cans of butane gas and four cans of fuel for the “final day”
- UKRAINE CRISIS: Biden has called NATO partners to warn that invasion of Ukraine could be days away. And one of his advisers describes what the first days of war might look like
Público
- UKRAINE CRISIS: Ukraine diplomatic stampede now that Russia has sufficient forces for invasion
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Handwritten plan seized from student’s home lacked detailed data about the attack
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Cândida Almeida criticises PJ: “It is neither normal nor advisable” to publicise avoided attack attempts
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Reserved in college, integrated and friendly in high school. How colleagues see the young suspect
CNN PT
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: His secret network, the woman who caught him and a phrase: “I hate this world”. The whole story of the plan to kill at Lisbon University
- SPORT: Violence. The incomprehensible three minutes and 57 seconds of FC Porto-Sporting
- UKRAINE CRISIS: After the US, European Union recommends its non-essential personnel in Kyiv to leave the country
- ELECTION: PSD files criminal complaint over emigrants’ vote: “We will not let this go unnoticed”
Diário de Notícias
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Faculty of Science. João planned the massacre down to the last five minutes
- UKRAINE CRISIS: Black Sea, another point of tension between Russians and Ukrainians
- PANDEMIC: Regional Health Authorities admit constraints in health units, but do not reveal data on those infected
- ECONOMY: Unemployment continues to rise for the young and catches up with the last crisis
Jornal de Notícias
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: University student suspected of terrorism would have teacher as main target
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Is a planned attack by a student terrorism? Lawyers differ
- INFRASTRUCTURE: Tender for Porto metro bridge goes ahead
- SPORT: FC Porto-Sporting: four red cards in a football-smudging finale
Sol
- ELECTION: PSD to file criminal complaint over voided emigrants’ votes
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: President Rebelo de Sousa praises PJ mission and makes clear: “The Portuguese can and should consider themselves safe”
- DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Lawyer of young man suspected of planning attack will contest remand in custody
- POLITICS: “The ‘friendly fire’ killed” the presidency of the CDS-PP, criticises Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos
Jornal i
- PANDEMIC: Portugal is no longer in the red zone. Incidence, RT and active cases continue to decrease
- ELECTION: PSD to file criminal complaint over voided emigrants’ votes
- ELECTION: Livre and Volt Portugal appeal to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of emigrants’ votes:
- ELECTION: Appeal over annulled emigrants’ votes will not delay the swearing in of the new Government, says President Rebelo de Sousa
TSF
- INFRASTRUCTURE: “It is dramatic that decision on new airport has been delayed for 30 years”
- POLITICS: Nuno Melo to formalise candidacy for CDS leadership next week
- POLITICS: Rodrigues dos Santos says internal ‘friendly fire’ “killed” his CDS-PP leadership
Dinheiro Vivo
- ECONOMY: Unemployment continues to rise for the young and catches up with the last crisis
- BUSINESS: Pedro Capitão: “We will need to recruit 300 people this year”
- BUSINESS: Valérius will invest 1,5 million in Dielmar and expects to invoice 2,5 million already this year
- BUSINESS: Caixa is renegotiating 480 million loans, mostly from households