The Portuguese-Brazilian Fernanda Coelho, who is a lawyer, made a formal complaint against AIMA with the Portuguese Bar Association. The president of the body, João Massano, has scheduled a meeting with the agency.
Pregnant for nine months, the Portuguese-Brazilian Fernanda Coelho does not hide the disappointment. On the morning of Wednesday, October 1st, more precisely at 10:28 a.m., she arrived at the service station of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) in the neighborhood of Anjos, central region of Lisbon, in search of care. In that post there is a department to receive exclusively lawyers, which is the case of Fernanda. But she was prevented from entering the scene by a security guard, even though she had priority for being pregnant and the prerogative for being a lawyer.
"This security guard simply told me to come back the next day, before the sun came up, to try to pick up one of the passwords that are distributed around 8am," Fernanda reports. "I still tried to argue that I was nine months pregnant and that I was a lawyer, but he completely ignored me and still acted with debauchery, as his self was asking for a favor, when it was my right," she adds. As soon as she left the post of AIMA, the Portuguese-Brazilian made a formal complaint to the Portuguese Bar Association.