2023 Lisbon Ismaili Centre stabbing

The alert was received by Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) at 10.57am[2] and Abdul Bashir, an Afghan refugee enrolled at the centre, was arrested.

[7][8] On 29 March, Luís Neves, the national director of the Polícia Judiciária ruled out terrorism citing no "minimum evidence" of radicalization attributing the stabbing to the perpetrator's "psychotic outbreak".

[17] In a 2021 video made while he was living in a Greek refugee camp, Abdul Bashir lamented in English the death of his wife in an accidental fire five months into their arrival as irregular immigrants at Lesbos, Greece, stated that his life was very hard for him and his three children, and talked about his requests for help directed to the UNHCR and of his telecommunications engineering degree.

[18][19] In October 2021,[1] he was relocated to Portugal under the formal EU refugee resettlement system through a bilateral Greece-Portugal agreement with the help of the Aga Khan Foundation, and received support (administrative advice, food and shelter assistance, Portuguese language lessons, and sewing classes)[20] from Lisbon's Ismaili Centre until the attack.

[23] In Portugal, Bashir lived with his three children in a rented flat in Odivelas paid for by the Ismaili Centre[24] and was described by neighbours and staff of a bakery near his house as a caring father and a calm and polite person, but unable to speak Portuguese.

When he remained aggressive and failed to drop his weapon as the police demanded,[26] he was shot in the leg by PSP officers and sent to the São José Hospital[27] for treatment after his arrest.

[28][29][30] After the stabbing, members of Lisbon's Ismaili community reported to the Polícia Judiciária (PJ), Portuguese criminal investigation police, that Bashir had developed an obsessive love disorder towards the younger victim, 24-year-old Mariana Jadaugy, who had rejected him.

[59] Neves claimed that once there, Bashir might have wanted to stay in Switzerland or reach Germany, from where he had already been sent back to Lisbon,[17] as it was Portugal that had granted him refugee status.