Did you miss historian Irène Flunser Pimentel's talk as part of the exhibition La révolution de 1974. Des rues de Lisbonne au Luxembourg? The talk was recorded and is now available online.
How can the passivity of the Directorate-General for Security (DGS) – formerly the International and State Defence Police (PIDE) – before and during 25 April be explained? And what about the passivity of the members of the government and the military hierarchy loyal to the dictatorship? What were the main factors behind the success of the coup d’état? Why wasn’t the dictatorship’s political police one of the first targets? How did the assault on the DGS headquarters and the liberation of political prisoners unfold? The exegete intends to revisit this pivotal day for Portugal in an attempt to shed light on certain lingering questions.