The death of Marielle Franco splashes Bolsonaro …

From Rio de Janeiro

The links of one of Jair Bolsonaro's children, the current Senator Flavio, with the "Militia", the so-called gangs of policemen, retired soldiers and even firefighters, dominate vast areas of Rio de Janeiro on the basis of extreme violence. and neighboring municipalities.

There are frequent and extremely violent conflicts with drug traffickers for the control of the territory, in the face of the visible inefficiency, if not the complicity, of the police forces.

The current president's admiration for these criminal gangs is also known. A good example of this was reported in his day as a national deputy: Bolsonaro came to offer, with a humorous rather than dubious expression, sending militia to Bahia, while the province was experiencing a assault explosion.

The old Rio military police Fabricio Queiroz, The right hand of Bolsonaro over the decades and closely related to his son Flavio, has always facilitated the access of the senator from today and until last year of the provincial deputy of Rio to the militia and vice – versa. Flavio has distributed several advisory posts in his office to relatives of well-known militiamen. Queiroz has withheld most of the salaries of these alleged advisers, who for the most part have never come to work, and it is suspected that the money was passed on to the senator today.

As if to emphasize this closeness, in the condominium Barra da Tijuca, a wealthy new neighborhood in Rio where the house of Bolsonaro resides, lived a few meters away, the former military policeman Ronnie Lessa, a prisoner for having been l & rsquo; Author the shots that killed the Rio counselor at the time Marielle Franco
and his assistant and driver, Anderson Gomes.

There are pictures of the two neighbors, Bolsonaro and Lessa, images which, more than suggested, indicate a strong cordiality between them.

Never before, however, had there been any rapprochement between Bolsonaro and the crime that had shaken Brazilian public opinion and whose voters had never been identified.

On the night of last Tuesday, the program National newspaper, of the network Globo de Televisión, the one with the biggest audience in Brazil, said in a report that the porter of the condominium in which Bolsonaro and Lessa have houses had declared that Renault Logan has approached the goal in saying that he was going to number 58 house, then MP and current president.

After calling to ask permission for the visitor's entrance, the former military police Elcio Queiroz, the driver was allowed to enter the condominium. According to what the porter said in two testimonies given to the police, the voice he authorized was that of "Don Jair". Through the internal surveillance cameras, the porter saw that the visitor was heading to the house of number 65, where former military policeman Ronnie Lessa resided. He called again "Don Jair", who reassured him that he knew where the visitor was heading.

Hours later, Lessa and Queiroz left the condo and went to fulfill their mission by murdering Marielle Franco.

he National newspaper He pointed out that there was an obvious and undeniable contradiction between the goalkeeper's testimony and Jair Bolsonaro's: the then MP was in the House, in Brasilia, and in addition to signing the booklet of presence, he had taken several pictures with supporters.

It was not reported if the porter had called Bolsonaro's house or simply "Don Jair". The question is justified because it could have been a mobile phone call from Bolsonaro.

The reaction of the current president has exceeded all his previous bursts of anger and aggression. In a 23-minute, 47-second TV show aired on Facebook from Saudi Arabia early in the morning (ten hours in Brazil), Bolsonaro sweated and blushed attacked the Globe, threatening not to renew his concession which expires in 2022, to the current governor of Rio Wilson Witzel and refused, among the curses and the mentions to the "canalised" of the Globe, any connection with the murder of Marielle Franco and her motorcyclist.

In particular, there is, at least for the moment, no reason to suspect the existence of any link. It attracts attention, in any case, the disproportionate reaction of the president. As much as their emotional imbalance and their limitless aggression are well known, never before had Bolsonaro offered such an angry show, on the verge of the uncontrollable.

To bring in the name of the President of the Republic, an authorization from the Supreme Federal Court for investigations to be opened. But yesterday, the prosecution has already delivered, defending the case because of inconsistencies in the statements of the porter, whose identity has not been revealed, to the police.

Bolsonaro, in turn, asked the Minister of Justice, former Judge Sergio Moro, that the federal police is handling the matter. He forgot, Mr. President, that such a decision does not depend on him. Not his minister. We must wait until the Supreme Court decides.