The Paraná civil police had reported that the aggressor had died when the birthday boy had managed to respond to the shots, but the commissioner of the homicide division, Iane Cardoso, stated that he is hospitalized and in custody.
The official made the statement during a press conference in which she confirmed that there was “political motivation” in the murder.
The attack by the Bolsonarista police officer was politically motivated because the birthday had the theme of the Workers’ Party (PT) and the victim, Marcelo Arruda, He wore a T-shirt with Lula’s face on it.
The invasion of the party of the leader, who was also a municipal guard and treasurer of the PT, by the Bolsonarist federal prison police officer occurred after Thursday Lula should wear a bulletproof vest at an event in Rio de Janeiro after a man who was detained threw a homemade explosive into the crowd.
“From what has been perceived so far, it was a crime committed out of political intolerance,” said Foz do Iguaçu Security Secretary Marclos Jahnke, based on the investigation by the Civil Police of the state of Paraná.
Lula, the favorite candidate in the polls for October 2, attributed to the far-right Bolsonaro “the climate of hatred in the country” reflected in this crime of the leader who was a municipal guard of Foz de Iguazú and treasurer of the PT in that city.
political violence
Marcelo Arruda was celebrating his 50th birthday dressed in a shirt with the image of Lula in a club decorated with images of the former president when a federal prison policeman, Jorge Guaranho, interrupted the party with his wife with a baby in her arms shouting “Here is Bolsonaro” Y “Bolsonaro president, motherfuckers”according to what witnesses told the local press.
The Bolsonarist policeman left after this first break-in, shouting “I will kill everyone” and being disowned by the birthday boy and several of his friends and relatives. The killer’s wife asked him to stop and forget about the case.
After 20 minutes, he returned armed and firing, after which arruda, who is a guard of the municipality of Foz de Iguazú, local treasurer of the Workers’ Party and had been a candidate for vice mayor in the municipal elections of 2020, responded with his regulation weapon.
Arruda -father of four children, the last of whom was two months old, all present at his birthday party- was shot three times and the Bolsonaro police five, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Repercussion
The president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffman, linked the murder to “hate speech and the dangerously armed population” by the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro.
“Packed by a hate speech and dangerously armed by the current policy of the President of the Republic, which stimulates confrontation, conflict, attacking adversaries, anyone who adheres to this project of death and destruction has been becoming an aggressor or murderer” , said Hoffmann lamenting the death of the leader of Foz do Iguazú, state of Paraná, bordering Misiones.
He also asked the Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court for measures to deal with any situation that fuels a climate of violent dispute.
Lula published an extensive statement in which he accused Bolsonaro of implement hate in the countryand said that with his reaction, Arruda managed to avoid a massacre at the party in which there were 40 people in a public employees’ club.
The murderer had a profile in tribute to Bolsonaro and the release of weapons for the civilian population.
Bolsonaro’s call to take action
On Thursday, on his weekly Facebook live, Bolsonaro had called on his followers to act before the elections against alleged electoral fraud after affirming that an invasion of Congress similar to the one that occurred in the United States with the followers of Donald Trump would not occur in Braisl.
“You know what is at stake, you know how to prepare, not for a new Capitol, nobody wants to invade anything, but we know what we have to do before the elections,” he said in a message to his supporters.
On Saturday, in the March for Jesus, in São Paulo, he called the evangelicals to the “war between good and evil”, as he described the electoral campaign.
A history of violent phrases
PT leaders recalled Bolsonaro’s speeches on their social networks with the phrases “we are going to machine-gun the petistas” and “let’s wipe the reds off the map.”
Lula’s safety worries the coordinators of the PT campaign, as a result of the threats that the former president has been suffering since he was released after spending 580 days in prison for Operation Lava Jato, in a case annulled by the Supreme Court for manipulation and political animosity.
On June 27, Lula and his vice-presidential candidate, former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, launched the guidelines for the government program at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel, in the exclusive Jardins neighborhood of São Paulo.
In the middle of a speech, a Bolsonarist named Caíque Mafra, a Catholic far-rightist, bypassed security and approached Lula to shout insults at him, which set off alarms again in the security team.
For Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, one of Lula’s campaign coordinators, much of the encouragement for these attacks comes from Bolsonaro, who has repeated that the former president “cannot go out on the streets.”
In March 2018, a month before he was sent to prison, the bus in which Lula was traveling was shot in the interior of the state of Paraná.
Lula has, by law, permanent custody that all former presidents enjoy.
Meanwhile, the Federal Police appointed the team of commissioners in charge of Lula’s security, something mandatory for each candidate.
The team coordinator is commissioner Andrei Rodrigues, who was part of the security team for Dilma Rousseff’s candidacy in 2010 and was extraordinary secretary of security at the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In September 2018, Bolsonaro was the victim of a knife attack in Minas Gerais, in an episode that distanced him from the electoral campaign and increased his popularity, which later led him to win in the second round.
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Source: Ambito
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