They arrest the suspect of the murder of Marielle Franc …

From Brasilia

The neighbor of the president. An alleged police officer who resides on the same property as Jair Bolsonaro lived until his accession to the presidency was arrested in Rio de Janeiro on suspicion of being the one who executed four machine gun shots on the militant Marielle Franco.

The alleged killer, Ronnie Lessa, was arrested around 4am by officers from the Homicide Division and shortly after the fall of Elio Vieira de Queiroz, while the driver of the car that intercepted Marielle in the night of March 14 spent in the center of Rio. In the attack is also dead Anderson Gomes, who was driving the other car and was badistant to the counselor of the Socialist Party and Freedom (PSOL).

Ronnie Lessa is a retired police sergeant in Rio, a company to which also belonged his accomplice Vieria de Queiroz, who had been demobilized from this force because of his links with the "militias" of the forces of Rio de Janeiro. order.

The interrogations continued around ten o'clock in the morning, when other agents carried out thirty – two raids on other points of the city.

A group of investigators stayed in the luxurious Lessa residence in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, where they seized documents, computers and a high-end armored vehicle. According to reporters stationed instead, the agents searched the house in the hope of finding weapons.

The killers would be part of a well-trained militia cell to whom it would have been asked to follow in Marielle Franco's footsteps from October 2017. Marcelo Freixo, MP, of the Socialist Party and freedom (PSOL), was also followed by the badbadins.

For the prosecutor's office, the 14 March mbadacre was a "barbaric" event that had a "political" motive. The attack was conducted by professionals who, in addition to being trained to use weapons for the exclusive use of the armed forces, cleared the area of ​​the attack by disconnecting the security cameras.

PSOL counselor, Marielle Franco of the time, was killed on her return from coordinating an event titled "Black Youth Moving Structures". Sociologist, afro-descendant, aged 38, she lived in couple with the architect Monica Benicio.

"It is urgent and necessary to reveal" the intellectual authorship of the two murders, Benicio asked shortly after becoming aware of the arrest of possible material authors.

It turns out that the high-impact police operations were repeated around the birthdays of the mbadacre. On the 12th or 13th of every month, there is usually a resounding news with the likely interest of silencing the claims of family members and human rights organizations.

Monica Benicio went abroad to denounce the murder, affair to the UN agenda, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International. 39, Amnesty International.

"More than ever, Amnesty International reaffirms the need for an external group to accompany the investigations," said a statement from the entity that worries about the delay in the process.

The case sparked national unrest in March when tens of thousands of people spontaneously returned to the streets to protest. The mobilizations that surprised by the mbadive and dominant presence of militants without activists.

With the arrival of Bolsonaro at Plbadto Palace, the problem became more explosive: the former captain had claimed "militia" in political acts and even in the precincts of Parliament when he was a federal deputy of Rio.

This retired policeman Ronnie Lessa is his neighbor is an anecdote. As well, it is to be supposed that the two shared an informal meeting while walking on the beach in front of which is the property where they live.

This neighborhood does not say anything in itself, but it can give clues. What binds Bolsonaro to the "militias" is his three-decade friendship with Fabricio Queiroz, a retired policeman with close ties to the world of organized crime.

The probable "militiaman" Fabricio Queiroz was an advisor to Flavio Bolsonaro, the presidential son, who served as legislator in Rio. Through the intermediary of his office, activists and their families have spent or worked, as the press has shown, and find themselves in the file of another forensic investigation at the outset of the first scandal of the national government a month and a half ago.

If the two policemen arrested Tuesday for their apparent connection with Marille's death agree to confess what they know, this could be a step to clarify this crime. And perhaps more elements emerge from the power conspiracy behind Jair Bolsonaro.