2023 Lisbon Ismaili Centre stabbing

On the morning of 28 March 2023, two Portuguese women belonging to the staff of the Ismaili Muslim Centre in Lisbon were stabbed to death. The alert was received by Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) at 10.57am and Abdul Bashir, an Afghan refugee enrolled at the centre, was arrested. A professor of Portuguese for foreigners at the centre and a female Afghan refugee attending Portuguese language classes were threatened at knifepoint and injured. 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". But on 31 March, the Public Prosecution Service did not rule out terrorism as the motive of the crime, which as of May 2023 was still under investigation.