PT incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in PT. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 12
- Cities represented
- 9
- Latest incident date
- 11 August 2026
- Latest review
- 13 August 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 records | — |
| 2025 | 2 records | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | — |
| 2023 | 1 record | — |
No Eurostat reference series is currently loaded for PT.
Current judicial status
- 7Alleged
- 2Charged
- 3Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Barreiro, PT
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- Trofa, PT
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- Lisboa, PT
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- Lisboa, PT
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- Amadora, PT
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- Águeda, PT
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- Camarate, PT
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- Lisboa, PT
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in barreiro, PT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 32-year-old man was shot dead in the street near the Barreiro river terminal, south of Lisbon, on the night of Tuesday 11 August 2026. Emergency services were called to the Rua da Recosta at about 10.50pm. The victim, a Guinean national who lived in Germany and was in Portugal on holiday, was shot in the face at close range and died at the scene. According to witnesses, the shooting followed an argument over a board game played for money. Such games were held regularly in the street, drawing dozens of people, after a nearby café closed for the night. The argument escalated into a physical fight; the suspect is reported to have said he was going home to fetch a weapon, and to have returned with a revolver and opened fire. The judicial police opened an investigation. The suspect had been identified but not arrested at the time of the reports cited here.
- Homicide in trofa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 71-year-old woman was shot dead at her home in the municipality of Trofa, in the parish of Muro, on 9 August 2026. The suspect, her former husband, killed himself immediately afterwards. The victim had separated from the suspect and had spent nearly two years living in a domestic-violence shelter before returning to the house. Neighbours said the suspect had made repeated threats against her during the marriage, including that he would burn her alive, and had said that if he found another man in the house he would kill her and then himself. The Judicial Police of Porto investigated the deaths.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old woman was stabbed to death on the night of Wednesday 5 August 2026 in Lisbon. The killing followed an argument between two people who rented rooms in the same flat on Rua dos Prazeres, in the Misericórdia parish. According to a spokesperson for the Public Security Police, the suspect — a 30-year-old man who shared the flat with her — used a bladed weapon to stab the victim in the neck and face. She did not survive her injuries and died on the kitchen floor. The alert was raised at about 22:33 by the suspect himself, who called the police after the attack. No charge has been reported at this stage.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 56-year-old man was stabbed in the head and killed on 29 July 2026 in an apartment in the Penha de França district of Lisbon, in a flat he shared with the suspect. After the killing the suspect withdrew to his room and concealed the knife used. A 64-year-old man was arrested and indicted for the homicide following evidence gathered by the Lisbon and Tagus Valley directorate of the Polícia Judiciária. He was brought before a court, which ordered pre-trial detention. Investigators have not established a motive but suspect the killing was connected to a dispute over the sharing of household expenses.
- Homicide in camarate, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 40-year-old man was shot in the back in the early hours of 24 July 2026 in Camarate, in the municipality of Loures north of Lisbon. The emergency alert was received at 00:45. Volunteer firefighters from Camarate and a medical emergency team from Hospital de São José found him already in cardiorespiratory arrest; resuscitation attempts were discontinued without any return of spontaneous circulation, and his death was declared at the scene. His body was transferred to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Lisbon at 05:50. The PSP responded first and the Polícia Judiciária has taken over the investigation. No suspect has been identified and no arrest has been reported.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old man was beaten to death with an iron bar on 17 July 2026 on Rua do Alvito, in the Alcântara district of Lisbon. According to reporting on the investigation, he was attacked without warning after intervening to stop a robbery at a construction site, and the fatal blows were concentrated on his head. A colleague managed to escape and gave investigators an account of the attack. The suspect fled on foot and remains at large. Investigators describe him as an assailant already known to the PSP who operates in that part of the city. The Polícia Judiciária has opened urgent inquiries given the alarm the killing caused locally, and has not ruled out the involvement of accomplices, although no evidence currently supports that.
- Attempted homicide in aveiro, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
The victim, a 25-year-old man, was shot in the abdomen in Aveiro in the early morning following a quarrel with another man. He was stabilized by paramedics at the scene and taken to Aveiro Hospital. The suspect, a man of about 40, fled before police arrived; the case has been passed to the Judicial Police of Aveiro for investigation.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
Ministério Público acusa the suspect de ter assassinado the victim com um bloco de cimento, na Amadora.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 34-year-old man was shot twelve times in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood of Amadora, in the Lisbon district, on 3 August 2025, and died in hospital of his injuries. The shooting took place during an altercation involving several people, and those responsible fled afterwards. A 41-year-old Portuguese man was arrested in the Marseille region of southern France on 24 June 2026 under a European Arrest Warrant, following a joint operation between the Portuguese judicial police and the French judicial authorities. He was surrendered to Portugal and, after a first judicial interrogation, was remanded in pre-trial detention on suspicion of aggravated homicide.
- Homicide in águeda, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 71-year-old man was beaten to death with a wooden pole at his home in Barrô, in the municipality of Águeda, on 20 July 2025. His body was found two days later. According to the prosecution, the two men met on the road in front of the house and drank a beer together before the attacker struck the victim repeatedly, notably to the head. Investigators found the victim's phone and house keys missing and the access gate locked from the outside, and concluded that the perpetrator had made sure the victim could neither call for help nor leave. DNA and fingerprints on a beer bottle, and biological traces on a wooden pole recovered from the yard, matched the man later arrested. He was detained in October 2025 and held in pre-trial custody, and on 29 July 2026 the court in Aveiro convicted him of aggravated homicide and sentenced him to 16 years and six months in prison.
- Homicide in viseu, PT
· Convicted · 1 source
O crime ocorreu no centro comercial Palácio do Gelo em dezembro de 2024. O homem estava acusado de um crime de homicídio qualificado consumado e mais seis na forma tentada.
- Homicide in baleizao, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
An elderly German couple, aged 79 and 71, were killed by their live-in caretakers at a rural property in Baleizão (Beja, Alentejo) in April 2023; their bodies were found in an advanced state of decomposition. The killing was reportedly driven by a breakdown in the working relationship and a financial motive — the suspects took a vehicle and bank cards belonging to the victims. The suspects were convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison each, but the written judgment has twice been sent back on appeal for reformulation; a third reading is scheduled for September 2026, and the suspects remain free after reaching the maximum limit of pretrial detention.