UPDATE: 
Camilo Mortagua, of 87 year old, father of the twins and deputies from the Left Bloc Joana and Mariana Mortágua, was located in a hotel in Castelo Branco..
Reported missing since this Sunday morning, Camilo Mortágua was found alive and in good health in a hotel in Castelo Branco. The reasons why he stayed at the hotel and did not make any contact with his family are not yet known..
The GNR and the Firefighters of Alvito were conducting searches in several locations in the district of Beja and also in Fundão, but to date there are no traces of the missing person or the vehicle.
According to Captain Nuno Afonso, Public Relations Officer of the GNR Territorial Command of Beja, “the alert was given by the woman” after learning that the husband had not arrived at the destination and when trying to contact him by cell phone, this is off.
after the alert, the GNR searched the surroundings of Alvito and access roads and localities in Cuba, Beja and Ferreira do Alentejo and also in Fundão, but so far without any results. A team from the Transit Detachment is making the route between Alvito and Fundão, in order to be able to locate the missing person and the vehicle.
The GNR received a complaint that Camilo Mortágua's car was abandoned in Fundão, but after taking the necessary steps, it was proved that the vehicle was not the one sought..
Camilo Mortágua was born in Oliveira de Azeméis in 29 January 1934 and has been living in Alvito for nearly four decades, village in the district of Beja, where the two daughters Joana and Mariana were born.
In 1961, the Portuguese anti-fascist was celebrated for his participation in the diversion of the Santa Maria, who traveled to Miami with more than 300 crew and in the diversion of a TAP plane, distributed more than 10.000 subversive pamphlets against the Salazar regime, about the cities of Lisbon, Setúbal, Barreiro, Beja e Faro. In 1967 and in the company of three more comrades, he robbed the Banco de Portugal branch in Figueira da Foz.
Already after the fall of the fascist regime in Portugal, motivated by the April Revolution, Mortágua, participated in April of 1975 in the occupation of the Torre Bela estate, located in Azambuja, the largest walled area in Portugal, with 1700 hectares, property of the Duke of Lafões.
On 10 June 2005, the President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio awarded Camilo Mortágua the decoration of Grand Officer of the Order of Liberty.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
