Venezuela’s consulate in Lisbon targeted with explosive device

Venezuela’s consulate in Lisbon was targeted with an explosive device on Saturday night, but there were no injuries, the police said.

According to the Lusa news agency, at around 10pm on Saturday, an unidentified person threw a “kind of Molotov cocktail” against the wall of the Venezuelan Consulate General building in Lisbon.

A source from the Lisbon Metropolitan Public Security Police Command told Euronews that the PSP was called to the scene on Saturday night, where they set up a security perimeter “to preserve evidence” and “called the fire brigade”. After that, the case was immediately “referred to the Judicial Police” who are investigating.

“No-one was hit,” another police source told Lusa, who in turn reported only “material damage” in what was “more of a symbolic act, since it was against the building,” the same source added.

Read more: Euronews