The government of Brazil He assured this Tuesday that “shortly” will be resolved the murder six years ago Marielle Franco, a councilor from Rio de Janeiro, after the justice system validated the confession of ex-police suspected of firing the gun. The links of the authors with the Military police and the BOPE.
A little more than a year after the case was placed under the direction of the Federal Police, a month after the return to power of Lula da Silva, research on the Franco’s crime achieved significant progress because the Ronnie Lessa’s confessiona former member of the Military Police and suspected of firing the weaponwas validated by the Supreme Court magistrate, Alexandre de Moraes.
The Minister of Justice of Brazil, Ricardo Lewandowski, He confirmed this Tuesday the news about the statement and stated that he hopes that the crime that occurred in 2018 will be solved “briefly.” “We know that this collaboration (…) brings very important elements that lead us to believe that we will briefly have a solution to the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco,” said the minister.
Lessa would have given the authorities the names of the alleged masterminds of the crime, according to local media. Another former member of the PM, Elcio Queiroz, accused as the driver of the carhad confessed in July of last year his and Lessa’s participation in the crime.
That accusation led the police to arrest another suspect in Rio de Janeiro, the former firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa, who would have been in charge of monitoring Franco’s steps and hiding the weapons used in the attack.
Lessa and Queiroz would have links with paramilitary militias that terrorize several poor neighborhoods, and whose abuses were denounced on several occasions by Franco.
Formed about four decades ago by ex-police officers, retired soldiers, firefighters and prison guards, among others, the militias serve as community self-defense groups against the scourge of drug trafficking gangs. Created supposedly to free the favelas from the yoke of drug traffickers, they ended up becoming mafias that demand expensive taxes in exchange for “protection.”
Investigators have not yet identified those who commissioned the murder.but the main suspicion relates to the “Crime Office” (Escritorio do crime), a powerful paramilitary militia allegedly led by Adriano Magalhães da Nobrega, who was killed by the Police in February 2020 when he was going to be arrested for his links to the crime of Frank.
Former captain of the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE), an elite battalion of the Rio military police, Magalhães In 2005 he received the Tiradentes medal, the highest decoration in the state of Rio, at the initiative of the former deputy and current senator. Flavio Bolsonaroson of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Who was Marielle Franco?
Marielle Franco She was a prominent sociologist, political leader and human rights activist from Rio de Janeiro. Much of her fight was dedicated to defending the rights of black women in Brazil.
His social work was developed mainly in the favelas of that city. Franco defined himself as “feminist, black woman and daughter of the favela” and was a member of the young Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), founded in 2004.
In 2016, the activist was elected councilor in the capital of Fluminense as part of the Cambiar es Posible coalition, which made up the PSOL and the PCB, obtaining 46 thousand votes.
On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco She was ambushed and murdered with four shots to the head along with the driver of the car she was traveling in, Anderson Pedro Mathias Gomes. The event shocked Brazil, governed at the time by Jair Bolsonaro, and the hypothesis of political crime was immediately established.
At the time of the crime, Franco had a daughter, Luyara Santos, who was 19 years old at the time. In addition, he was in a relationship with the architect and activist Mónica Tereza Benicio.
Source: Ambito
