Venezuela's consulate in Lisbon targeted with explosive device

According to the Lusa news agency, at around 10pm on Saturday, an unidentified person threw a "kind of Molotov cocktail" against the wall of the Venezuelan Consulate General building in Lisbon.

A source from the Lisbon Metropolitan Public Security Police Command told Euronews that the PSP was called to the scene on Saturday night, where they set up a security perimeter "to preserve evidence" and "called the fire brigade". After that, the case was immediately "referred to the Judicial Police" who are investigating.

"No-one was hit," another police source told Lusa, who in turn reported only "material damage" in what was "more of a symbolic act, since it was against the building," the same source added.

The attack took place days after Nicolas Maduro's disputed inauguration for a new six-year term, despite the opposition claiming that there is no clear evidence that he won the elections last July.

The Venezuelan opposition, led by Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, claims that "a coup d'état has been consummated". Machado was briefly detained on Thursday as she left a demonstration in Caracas called to try to prevent Maduro from being sworn in.

The Venezuelan government has already reacted to the attack on the Consulate General, stating that "no 'uncontrolled' aggression" will stop the "Bolivarian revolution".

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister wrote on his Instagram account that "fascism attacked our Consulate General in Lisbon, Portugal with firebombs, attacking the services provided to our compatriots," said Yván Gil.

"The irrational aggressions of unbalanced groups will not be able to reverse the advances of the Bolivarian Revolution," added the minister.

The Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack