The citizen was waiting to be deported, due to his lack of documents when he arrived in the Portuguese capital, and today he managed to enter the airport's air ducts, reaching the roof of the infrastructure, an airport source confirmed to Sapo news, to be monitored by the authorities, present at the site, but did not lead to any change in traffic.
According to the same source, the alert was given at around 10:47am for an incident in Alameda das Comunidades Portuguesas, in Lisbon, where Humberto Delgado airport is located.
According to the same source, information about what was happening and what led the man to go up to the roof “is scarce”, and he is currently carrying out the “surrender of means”, so he was unable to say how many operatives were on site.
Meanwhile, the Public Security Police (PSP) created a large security perimeter in the arrivals area of Lisbon Airport, after the man climbed to the roof.
A police source told Lusa that the man has Brazilian nationality, was refused entry to Portugal and was in the international zone of Lisbon airport.
The same source said that negotiators from the Special Police Unit were at Lisbon airport to speak to the man, clarifying that he was not detained in a space equivalent to the airport's Temporary Installation Center.
The source also said that this was not the first time the man tried to escape.