PM announces the arrest of a suspect of attack against MP Martha Rocha



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Police of the 16th BPM (Pottery) arrested one of the suspects of attempted theft of the car in which was the representative of the State, Martha Rocha (PDT), last Sunday in Penha . On Wednesday night, 20-year-old Jonathan Aguiar dos Santos was involved in a car robbery in Estrada do Quitungo, in Brás de Pina, in the northern area of ​​Rio, before being taken to the headquarters of the Directorate of guarantees from the civilian police. he confessed his participation in the attack against the parliamentarian.

According to the Prime Minister, after receiving the report on the theft of the vehicle, the police seized and located the criminals, who reacted. There was an exchange of fire and one of the individuals involved in the robbery, yet unidentified, died on the spot as a result of the explosion of a grenade. In addition to Jonathan, Anderson da Silva Moraes and Lucas Jony dos Reis dos Santos, both 20, were also arrested.

In a statement, the civilian police announced that two men had been taken to the Homicide Division (DH) of the capital and be heard.

Martha's car, a white-armored Corolla, was mounted in a Hyundai iX35, in which four men were hooded and armed with rifles and pistols on Sunday morning in Belizário Pena Street, Penha. The MP was accompanied by her mother, aged 88, and driver Geonísio Santos Medeiros, first vice-president of the reserve. Medeiros was shot in the leg and hospitalized at Getúlio Vargas Hospital, but was released. In November of last year, Martha said that she had received three threats.

The line of investigation of the civilian police considers the case as an attempted robbery. Images collected by officers at the scene of the crime revealed that the criminals were not following the MP, which would dispel the initial suspicion of the attack.

Military police officers of the 16th BPM (Pottery) arrested one of the criminals involved in the attempted robbery of the occupants of the car in which he was traveling on Wednesday night, the State Representative , Martha Rocha, held last Sunday (January 13th) in Vila da Penha. #PMERJ pic.twitter.com/kcnSNo8h52

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