They discover a photo of Bolsonaro with the alleged assassin of Councilor Marielle Franco

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested alleged police killers in Rio de Janeiro. Councilor and activist Marielle Francoone of them posted a photo with President Jair Bolsonaro. It is the retired police sergeant Ronnie Lessa, arrested at his home in the district of Barra da Tijuca, during a raid in which his alleged accomplice Elcio Vieira de Queiroz, expelled from the police he eight years ago, was also captured.

The Brazilian press later discovered that Veira de Queiroz had been demobilized from the police for alleged links with militia militias, I had posted a picture with President Bolsonaro. Consulted on this photo, the president said that he had "photos of thousands of civilian and military police, with thousands of people all over Brazil" and considered it important that the investigations allowed to find the "executors" "of the crime.

The counselor of the Rio de Janeiro City Council was a leader in the defense of minority rights, and was murdered on March 14, 2018, several shots at the head, with Anderson Gomes, the driver of the vehicle in which he was traveling in the city center. Bolsonaro said that he hoped that Marielle Franco's death had been elucidated after the arrests: "I hope the investigation has come to fruition, if it is the executors and, more importantly, who ordered them to kill. " "he said.

The former Queiroz was accused by the public prosecutor of driving the car from which his accomplice Ronnie Lessa, also an elite sniper in the armed forces, descended. Anderson Gomes, who was driving the vehicle in which Marielle Franco was traveling, also lost her life after organizing a conference for women of African descent working in the favelas.

The badbadination of young counselor Franco, a 38-year-old sociologist, provoked national agitation and led to mbad mobilizations in several capitals on March 15, 2018. Ronnie Lessa was arrested in a complex of stylish houses in Barra da Tijuca, west of Rio de Janeiro, the same urbanization in which Bolsonaro lived until January, when he moved to Brasilia where he badumed the presidency. Commissioner Lages, questioned about this, said that this neighborhood "does not say much about the Marielle case" and that, as part of the investigation, "no direct relationship exists. was detected with the Bolsonaro family ".

This is not the first time, however, that the Bolsonaro family is linked to suspects of the murder of the social activist. In January of this year, it was discovered that the former MP and son of the president, Flavio Bolsonaro, had hired the mother and the captain's wife until November 2018. Adriano Magalhães de la Nóbrega, considered the strongman of the crime bureau, organization suspected of the murder of the counselor.

Bolsonaro's son also defended two PSL candidates during the election campaign, a party that had led his father to the presidency, destroying a sign paying tribute to the murdered advisor. "All they've done, is to restore order," he says then. Despite accusations of multiple murders against him, Flavio Bolsonaro has decided to pay tribute to Adriano and another gang member in the Legislative Assembly of Rio, saying that they were "the target of". a defamatory campaign ".

A murder with "political" motives

"Obviously the counselor [Franco] She was an enemy of the militia. But what led to the crime? Why did they want to silence this woman? (…) There must be something else, "said lawyer Walter Maierovitch, former national secretary for drugs (1999) and president of the Institute of Crime Sciences Giovanni Falcone. "Investigations up to now have not been convincing and the claim of society and the international repercussion [del caso] They are very strong, "added Maierovitch, who does not exclude Tuesday's ads as" a smokescreen ".

Prosecutors of the Special Action Group on Organized Crime felt that it was "indisputable that Marielle Franco was summarily executed because of her advocacy political performance that she was defending" . The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, said in a message on Twitter that the arrests should be "One more step to elucidate this serious crime and ensure that all those responsible appear in court"

S.D.