Brazil: wanted to rob a woman in the middle of the night without knowing that she was a military police – 27/03/2019

It's dark The recording shows a single woman crossing the street, when suddenly you see a man come out of a car and start walking directly to her. The woman starts to withdraw and reaches out to try to stop her from walking, while on the other hand she looks for something in her pants. The man reaches him and stops suddenly and falls to the ground. There is a brief flash of light, and Now, you see the woman with a rifle in her hand.

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The black and white shooting of a security camera in a mall shows the moment when a criminal tried to attack a female member of the military police in St.Paul, Brasil last Sunday The alleged thief, Francisco Gonsalves dos Santos Junior, 40 years old, he died in the act because of a blow in the chest.

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The São Paulo police confirmed that she was investigating the incident as a robbery and did not reveal the name of the officer, who was plainclothed at the police station. time.

Direct antecedents

It is May 12, 2018, also in São Paulo, Brazil, that the agent Katia Sastre found herself in a situation similar to the one that occurred last weekend . At the door of a private school where there was a Mother's Day celebration, an armed man appeared, sought to badault the parents entered the school.

It is in this context that the thief was surprised by Sastre, who was in civilian clothes. The woman took out her gun and fired three shots at the criminal, who also died instantly.. The episode was captured by a security camera and quickly became viral.

The mbadive repercussions of the incident turned Sastre, then aged 42, into a sort of heroine.

"My concern was to defend mothers, children and my family", the woman said at the time. The governor of San Pablo, Marcio Franca, paid tribute to him and congratulated him. "His courage and accuracy saved mothers and children at the door of a school," said the official. From that moment, his entry into politics was sung and he decided to stand for election to obtain a seat in the House of Deputies of San Pablo for the Brazilian Republican Party.

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In a television message, Sastre appeared in the police uniform and said, "I fired and shot again, my daughter and other children were in the sight of the bandit, I reacted as a police officer and as a mother, same attitude in the fight against crime, I have courage. "

The woman too She tried to use the video of the episode that made her known in her campaignbut the electoral justice prevented him, because, in his opinion, the images "promote in all the spectators the incitement to the attack directed against other people". He also imposed a fine of R $ 5,000 (approximately $ 1,220) in the event that the Sastre campaign fails to comply with this decision.

Sastre got more than 263,000 votes and it was the seventh located to enter the Chamber of Deputies of San Pablo, which in the 2018 elections was renewed with 70 parliamentarians.