(5 Sep 2025)
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Lisbon, Portugal – 5 September 2025
1. Flags at half-mast
2. Various of exterior of Santa Casa da Misericordia charitable institution
3. Tilt down of church
4. People leaving church after Mass for Santa Casa de Misericordia who died in streetcar crash
5. People gathered after Mass
6. Retired Santa Casa de Misericordia worker Maria das Neves walking past camera
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria das Neves, retired Santa Casa de Misericordia worker:
“I knew them vaguely. I used to see them but didn’t have direct contact with them. But they were excellent colleagues and friends. One of them worked here at this museum. I only knew them by sight. But they seemed nice people. These are sad events. In this house we all feel like family.”
8. Santa Casa da Misericordia worker Jose Friere outside church
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jose Freire, worker at Santa Casa da Misericordia:
“It’s very tough. One of the victims was relatively close to me. He didn’t work in my area. He worked in a different area. But we worked together and were very close.”
10. Various setup shots of Gonçalo de Oliveira, actor and father of three children adopted through Santa Casa da Misericordia
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Gonçalo de Oliveira, actor and father of three children adopted through Santa Casa da Misericordia:
“I have three adopted children. To be able to adopt children was my biggest dream. This is all too close to us. We were talking right now with other workers of Santa Casa that this was a daily way of transportation for many of them. They used to joke that when they boarded the streetcar they were already at Santa Casa. Because so many of them took it.”
12. De Oliveira at table
13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Gonçalo de Oliveira, actor and father of three children adopted through Santa Casa da Misericordia
(Asked how he would move on after accident)
"I don’t know how to answer that, because this is part of our lives. The priest during the homily said some events in our lives mark a before and after, and this is clearly one of those events. Because they were people who would do the visits (for adoption) and do their job. It wasn’t about risky events, they didn’t run races, there was not apparent danger facing them, and suddenly we lose 16 lives. Portuguese and foreigners, it doesn’t matter, it’s about lives. That’s what counts.”
14. Pan from back of Santa Casa da Misericordia building to start of descending Gloria funicular line closed by police tape
15. Funicular rail lines
16. Various of streetcar passing by
STORYLINE:
More than 100 relatives, colleagues and supporters gathered at a Lisbon church on Friday to mourn the deaths of five Portuguese nationals who died in this week’s streetcar crash in the capital.
Four of the victims worked at the same Catholic charity, Santa Casa de Misericordia.
Stricken mourners, many dressed in black and fighting back tears under a bright blue sky attended a Mass in Lisbon’s Church of Saint Roch.
Among the mourners was Gonçalo de Oliveira, an actor from Lisbon, who had adopted three children through Santa Casa de Misericordia with the help of one of the victims, Ana Lopes.
Adopting children was a lifelong dream for him, Oliveira said, and through the decade-long process, he crossed paths with Lopes at family reunions and events.
He said many of the Santa Casa di Misericordia workers who died took the streetcar to work so often, it felt like they were already at work.
His family members also regularly ride the cars.
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