Police dismantle housing protest camps in Lisbon and Porto
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Officers moved into Lisbon's Rossio square and Porto's Praça D. João I early this morning to clear encampments set up to protest the housing crisis. The operation involved breaking human chains and removing tents; in Porto, protesters cleared their own sites to avoid the arrests that followed confrontations in the capital.
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