Police in Porto have denied claims that officers in plain clothes detained housing protesters and escorted them to a police station. The PSP said it is “entirely false” that officers à paisana led protesters to the station in the early hours of Sunday, and insisted it is also false that more protesters were taken to the station in the following nights. According to the PSP’s official response to Lusa, the only people taken to police facilities were seven detainees arrested during the intervention. They were transported in marked police vehicles by uniformed officers. Earlier, the Porto PSP command said it was unaware of any plain-clothes officers identifying and detaining protesters leaving Praça D. João I. The Acampada do Porto pela habitação movement had alleged that plain-clothes police were identifying people and taking them to the station so they could be identified from photographs. Lawyer Ricardo Salazar said people were shown “photographs to be identified” after being taken in. He also pointed to an alleged similar practice in hospitals, where protesters said plain-clothes officers were identifying people. Salazar warned that if it happened, it could lead to “political processes” and persecution. The PSP response comes after police dispersed the housing camp in the early hours of Sunday, removing around 100 tents at locations including Rossio in Lisbon and Praça D. João I in Porto. The intervention ended with police charges and the throwing of objects, leaving more than two dozen injured among protesters and police. The latest status is that the PSP is disputing the allegations of undercover detentions and says no additional protesters were taken to the station beyond the seven arrested during the intervention.