Lisbon, Sept. 4, 2025 (Lusa) - Portugal's prime minister promised speedy investigations into the cause of the Glória funicular disaster, with a conference that includes Portugal's criminal investigation police agency, PJ, later on Thursday, and announced that TAP will support the victims' families.

In a statement to the media, without the right to questions, at the end of the cabinet meeting, alongside the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, who took part in the final part of the meeting, Luís Montenegro began by praising the rapid response of the rescue organisations.

"This rapid response saved lives and, above all, prevented the tragedy from taking on even greater and more devastating proportions," he said at his official residence in São Bento.

As for the ongoing investigations, the prime minister announced that, later today, "full details will be given of the steps that have been taken and are underway by the national director of the Judicial Police, the president of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, the government director of the National Health Service and the head of the Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Air and Rail Accidents".

"TAP has also offered to provide full support, whether in the transport of family members, nationals or foreigners who are outside our country, or to repatriate the injured and even transfer the bodies of the fatal victims," he said.

Montenegro also said that the Institute of Registry and Notary Public Services would be making a team available in Lisbon to speed up death registrations and to ensure that they would receive priority service.

"The Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences is working tirelessly to finalise all the autopsies as quickly as possible and to ensure that the bodies are quickly handed over to the bereaved families," he added.

The prime minister also said that the government is in contact with the families of the national and foreign victims, namely through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "whenever the identification of people and nationalities is confirmed".

"This tragic accident that has affected our country transcends borders and is a pain that has no nationality," he said, thanking all the messages of solidarity and condolences from various heads of government and state of the European Union, as well as the president of the European Council, former prime minister António Costa, and the speakers of the European Commission and the European Parliament.

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