Portuguese remember revolution which brought democracy at 50th anniversary parade

(25 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Lisbon, Portugal - 25 April 2024
1. Various of old military armoured cars parading and former soldiers saluting
2. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister Luis Montenegro
3. Old armoured car parading
4. Close of woman holding a carnation
5. Wide pan of old armoured cars
6. Various of old military vehicles on display, people viewing them
7. Sign reading (Portuguese) “Abril 25 - 50 years”
8. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Paulo Simões, 71, Sargent (at the time) who took part in the uprising:
“I am living with a sense of duty fulfilled. And for 50 years now, I have 2 children and in a pedagogical way I tried to instil in them the ideas of freedom, democracy, truth, honesty and I succeeded. Therefore, all of this is the corollary of April 25th.”
9. Wide of exhibition with crowd around
10. Child on top of armoured car holding a carnation
11. Woman giving a carnation away
12. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Carlos Maia Loureiro, 77, Lt Tennent (at the time) who took part in the uprising:
“In the Terreiro do Paço (from where I’m speaking now) and when we went to our post, the population cheered us and got into the (military) vehicles. Then I had the absolute idea that the military coup that we had organized and carried out was turning into a true revolution, later called the Carnation Revolution.”
13. Various of old armoured cars parading through Lisbon streets re-enacting the route they made 50 years ago
14. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Paulo Nebreiro, 72, Corporal (at the time) who took part in the uprising:
“The turnout was fantastic and the thousands and thousands of people who joined in throughout the day to what was happening made our lives easier because they showed the previous regime that there was nothing that could be done. The people were with us.”
15. Military vehicles parading
16. Crowd applauding
17. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Maria Monteiro, 68, wife of soldier who took part in the uprising:
“(I feel) immensely (emotional) for the freedom that we conquered, but we have to know how to defend it very well.”
18. People applauding
19. Military vehicles arriving at Largo do Carmo where Marcelo Caetano was arrested and where most of the action took place
20. Wide of hundreds gathered in Largo do Carmo
STORYLINE:
A military parade led by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took place at Praça do Comércio in the heart of Lisbon on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the military coup that took down one of Europe’s longest dictatorships on April 25, 1974.
Around 1,100 military officials from the Portuguese Navy, Air Force and Army took part in the parade that also included 5 navy ships by the river Tagus and the flyover of several helicopters and planes.
Reenactments in downtown Lisbon of dramatic moments in the 1974 army coup that brought democracy to Portugal were the centerpiece of the landmark event’s 50th anniversary commemorations.
In Lisbon, which was the coup’s epicentre, a column of troops and armoured vehicles arrived in a downtown square in a reenactment of one of the early stages of the uprising, when units took up pre-planned positions at key points in the capital.
Soldiers who took part in the coup fifty years ago, later depicted the insurrectionists' convergence on a paramilitary garrison in a square called Largo do Carmo.
That was where Marcelo Caetano, the Portuguese president at the time of the coup, was holed up and was surrounded by troops and jubilant civilians before surrendering.
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