The Bolsonaro clan and the exterminators | Opinion

From Rio de Janeiro

The wave of bad news for the presidential clan has increased: on the eve of the first anniversary of the badbadination of the city councilor Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, the retired police sergeant local military were arrested yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. Ronnie Lessa and Elcio Vieira de Queiroz, expelled from the same company in 2016. Both are part of a "militia", extermination groups formed by police, former police and firefighters located in Brazil.

What are the relations of the Bolsonaro clan – President Jair and his sons Carlos, Eduardo and Flavio – with the affair?

First, the four spent their lives renting the "militia" of Rio. When he was a national deputy, the current president came, with his utter rudeness, offering, laughing, to export militia to Bahia, while the province was facing an outbreak of violence and criminality. Then, the provincial deputy in Rio, Senator Flavio today granted Adriano da Nóbrega, former captain of the military police, maximum recognition of the Assembly of the province. Nóbrega, now a fugitive of justice, is accused of leading the "Bureau of Crime", the militia that controls one of Rio's largest slums. And more: he used in his office the mother, the wife and one of the militia girls.

But there is more: the former military policeman Fabiano Queiróz, who has worked for decades as a kind of general manager of the family – Dad's friend, has been treated by the trio of rabid dogs as a dear uncle – is involved up to the detour of public money and absolute privacy with the fugitive Nóbrega. Queiróz was blatant in making generous deposits on the bank account not only of Flavio's son, but also of the current first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro.

In two years, one of Queiróz's accounts has grown to just under two million dollars. His retirement, added to the salary as Flavio's "advisor" at the Rio Assembly, has never exceeded five thousand peaks per month. To explain the inexplicable flow of millionaires into his account, Queiróz said he bought and sold used cars.

In any case, none of this evidence was sufficient for the Bolsonaro clan and the extermination groups operating in Rio to be close, and admired, to gain the corresponding weight.

But the thing has now taken another impulse: the murder of Marielle Franco and her driver is a subject of interest that goes beyond the Brazilian borders, and the man named as his murderer is a neighbor of Father Bolsonaro in a new urbanization. Rich West Zone of Rio.

Another miracle of multiplication: with a pension of just over two thousand dollars, he lives in a house worth more than a million.

Of course, being a neighbor is far from being a closer link. But in this case, the links are indisputable.

There are many pictures of Father Bolsonaro with the two detainees (as you can see Elcio Vieira de Queiroz). A daughter of Ronnie Lessa was the girlfriend of one of the sons of the presidency. And Lessa has always repeated, and it has never been denied, that the end of her daughter's engagement with the captain's son did not drive them away.

There were several indications that, in order not to further shake the goal-directed government by an imbalance and their hydrophobic children, the link of the Bolsonaro clan with the extermination groups would remain in the shadows. But someone turned on the light.