Several thousand people filled Comercio Square in central Lisbon at around 4pm Saturday. The demonstrators brandished national banners and displayed signs reading, “Enough incompetence,” “Enough Fires,” “Shame,” “Criminals” and “We demand responsibilities and demand protection.”

Minor scuffles between rival groups of demonstrators were reported at the start of the event.

After that, the rally proceeded in the form of a silent protest under the slogan, “Mourning and silence for all the victims, for all the houses destroyed, for all the trees burned,” Diario de Noticias reported.