Suitcase scandal: Far-right Portugal politician faces luggage-theft charges

Suitcase scandal: Far-right Portugal politician faces luggage-theft charges

“I am being crucified on the public square,” Miguel Arruda says in denying wrongdoing.

A far-right politician in Portugal is accused of stealing suitcases at several airports and being kicked out of his political party as a result, The Guardian reports.

After leaving Chega due to the suitcase case, Congressman Miguel Arruda turns against the party that does not want him sitting next to its deputies: he says that Chega wanted to expel him.

Far-right lawmaker from Portugal accused of stealing suitcases at several airports

Some of the missing suitcases were reportedly found by police at 40-year-old lawmaker Miguel Arruda's home.

Miguel Arruda, of the ultra Chega party, has announced that he leaves this force without giving up his act as a parliamentarian to continue as independent raids and health exclusion of people without papers: the extreme right marks the passage of the Government of Portugal A Portuguese far-right politician is being investigated by the Police for allegedly stealing suitcases at various airports. Portuguese deputy Miguel Arruda, of the ultra-right…

Miguel Arruda was a secondary and noisy deputy of the Chega bench, the Portuguese ultra-right party, until Tuesday. Since then he has become the only politician who can boast of having eclipsed Donald Trump in the news and in the memes on social networks in Portugal. That Tuesday several policemen were waiting for him at Lisbon airport. They accompanied him to his apartment in the Portuguese capital, where they found a chaos of clothes, objects …