We don’t hear much about there being a Muslim invader problem in Portugal

But apparently, there is one, exactly the same as the rest of Western Europe.

A Portuguese woman was brutally attacked and humiliated by several immigrants on a train platform in Lisbon.

The scene unfolded before the eyes of many passersby, who, shocked, simply watched without intervening.

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Demonstrators marched through the capital Lisbon with the Portuguese national flag and carried banners bearing slogans like, ‘Expulsion of (mainly Muslim) immigrants who commit crimes.’

EuroNewsThousands of people in Portugal have protested against ‘uncontrolled immigration’ in a rally called by the far-right CHEGA party. 

“We emigrated legally. That’s how it should happen in a developed country,” said Cecilia Guimaraes, who arrived in Portugal from Canada. She complained of a feeling of insecurity she says could be linked to foreign arrivals.

CHEGA party leader André Ventura said those who wanted to come to Portugal to work and contribute were welcome. Another lawmaker for CHEGA, Portugal’s third-largest political force, said Portugal and other European countries were unable to control entries, which created a “feeling of insecurity” because of unscreened arrivals.

The number of foreigners living in Portugal jumped by more than 33% last year to more than one million, around one-tenth of the total population, according to the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum.

The centre-right governing coalition toughened the country’s migration policy in June. It scrapped a measure allowing immigrants to apply for legalization if they could prove they had been working for at least one year even if they had entered the country illegally.