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Leonardo is one of the bandits who badaulted a shop in Barra de Guaratiba on the 15th. In action, Matheus Lessa, 22, was shot and killed while he was defending his mother. The next day, the police arrested the DJ, claiming that four witnesses – including Matheus' mother – had acknowledged him.
The family immediately began to struggle to free him. Leonardo's father said the family did not want to invade the space of criminal investigation, but he had to prove that the young man was not responsible for the murder.
"I know it was a police case, but we wanted to prove the innocence of our son, so we acted in parallel, the case was urgent, our son had never been stopped, "revealed the administrative technician Jorge Benjamin dos Santos.
The family knew Matheus from sight, the market located a few kilometers from the house where Leonardo lives with the parents. "A little earlier, I had seen him talk about this crime on television and showed him:" Look how cruel it is, what they did to such a young boy. "Later, he was accused of this crime," said his mother. Leonardo came to spend his birthday in prison.
After the nervousness, at dawn of course, came the memory. "Guys, he said he was going out on the ground, there's the condo camera, he's going through that," recalls Eliane.
The next morning, Leonardo was transferred from the 43rd PDD (Guaratiba) to Benfica Prison, in the northern area of the capital, Rio de Janeiro.
While the mother was exhausted by the son's arrest, Leonardo's twin sister is responsible for recovering the footage. She asked the trustee, who helped them pick them up in the late afternoon, the day after his arrest.
And here are the minutes: Leonardo appeared on the football field at the time of the crime, in a very different outfit from that which would have been used by the murderer of Matheus according to what the investigations had revealed.
On the pictures of the street, at 15:46 on the 15th, he appears walking towards a football field. About 20 minutes later, at 7:09 pm, he seems to be returning home.
The flight on the market took place shortly before 7 pm, at 3 km. Witnesses told the murderer that he was wearing a white shirt. In the pictures, Leonardo appears with a colorful regatta.
The pressure is only the family began to increase when the image of Leonardo began to spread on television and on the Internet as the culprit of the crime. See the young man as a criminal arouse even more enthusiasm from his parents and sisters.
"Anyone who did not know it put it on the Internet:" Look at the monster! "But as it was created there, people also knew that it was not true, and then people started to react and react," said the DJ's father.
Jorge feared that Leonardo would be killed in prison with this repercussion and thought that he had to run.
The images were pbaded on to the family's lawyer.The case was published by the police and led at liberation.
The family reports problems of recognition of Matheus by witnesses and states that there had been racism. "They put two light boys and he is black. Given that the boy who shot was black, "explained Eliane.
Matheus Lessa had 22 years old – Photo: Social networks
The shirts used by Leonardo's parents show the hashtags #Leonardolivre and #Matheus.Although Matheus' mother was one of four witnesses to have recognized Leonardo as the # 39, author, Eliane says she does not feel hurt and thinks she has been under pressure from the situation
"I understand. Look at this mother's pain. Because I was going to see my son again. And she? She lost a son this way, "said Leonardo's mother.
Still under the shock of Leonardo's arrest and release, family members did not stop to consider prosecute the state for the error committed in prison. "The priority is to change the image transmitted by our son. In the treatment of this or that cyclane, we still do not think, "said Jorge.
Leonardo's relatives still feel the consequences of the prison sentence, they fell asleep and ate badly, lest some something worse happens to him. "Our life has stopped. Our bills are late. We could not go to the bank, "said father.