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Mar 14, 2019 · October 2018 – Two candidates for Rio de Janeiro State Congress in Bolsonaro’s PSL party, rip a street sign honoring Marielle Franco in half at a campaign event, while gubernatorial candidate Wilson Witzel cheers. In the scandal that ensues, Flavio Bolsonaro defends their actions.
- Bope Veterans
- Old Crimes Offered A Lead
- “Ghost Weapon”
- Militias and A City Council Member
- A Broken Street Sign
In Brazil, each state has a military and civil police force. BOPE, an elite unit within Rio’s Military Police force, was founded in 1978 to carry out hostage rescues and other lifesaving operations, but evolved into an urban warfare unit with numbers in the hundreds. Its members are known as “caveiras,” or skulls, and the unit’s sometimes brutal en...
The Intercept reported last May that the main suspect had ties to BOPE, and the weapon used in the crime— likely one of three types of imported submachine guns — was rare on the streets in Brazil, but part of the arsenal of special ops commandos. The Civil Police’s Homicide Division first arrived at the name of the suspect by interrogating potentia...
Franco’s killers employed a bevy of sophisticated measures to cover their tracks, including the use of what are known as “ghost weapons,” according to the Civil Police report. The strategy is simple. For instance, as with the spoils of war, corrupt police are known to assemble arsenals of arms seized in the course of their work, usually from operat...
Without enough material evidence to directly link Nóbrega’s posse to Franco and her driver’s assassinations, the Civil Police detectives dug deeper into unsolved homicide cases in which they thought the group of former BOPE officers might have been involved. In addition to the deaths of ex-sergeants Pereira and Falcon, the investigators dusted off ...
Ten months after the executions of Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes, the Homicide Division and the Public Ministry at last seem close to putting together all of the pieces in this intricate puzzle. Gen. Walter Braga Netto, who led the federal government’s takeover of Rio’s public security apparatus until the end of last year, told the O Globo new...
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Jul 24, 2023 · Last modified on Mon 24 Jul 2023 15.30 EDT. Brazilian police have arrested a new suspect over the killing of the Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco, the first major development for ...
Mar 25, 2019 · An articulate and charismatic public speaker, Marielle Franco was a city councillor from the leftwing PSOL party whose campaigning against corruption and police violence had made her a rising...
Jul 25, 2023 · This is an important step to answer the big question that many Brazilians have been asking for the last five years: who ordered Franco to be killed, and why. The country’s Minister of Justice and...
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Mar 14, 2023 · RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Relatives and supporters gathered Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro to mark five years since the assassination of Black, bisexual city councilwoman Marielle Franco amid hope that investigations into her death will accelerate under Brazil’s new leftist president.
Mar 14, 2019 · Women marching last week in Rio de Janeiro, calling for justice for Marielle Franco, a black, gay, feminist politician whose killing has become a rallying cry in a deeply polarized nation....
