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Brazil: New Arrests in Relation to Marielle Franco's Murder
Published 10 June 2020
The Public Prosecution Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) Wednesday ordered the arrest of firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa who has been accused of being involved in the murder of the Socialist councilor Marielle Franco and her driver on March 14, 2018.
According to police investigations, Correa and four other people were denounced for trying to hide the weapons used in the crime with clear political motives. Correia is a friend of police officer Ronnie Lessa, who is in prison accused of being the direct executor of the murders.
Since 2018, Franco's murder has generated shock in Brazil because she was leading a citizen investigation against the extrajudicial killings by police and paramilitaries, a type of illegal activity that has been historically related to the far-right in this South American country.
“So far four suspects have been arrested for the murder, all with ties to state security forces, and two of them with links to the family of recently elected right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro,” the Working Class History (WCH) web page recalled on March 14, 2019.
"Bolsonaro, glorifying dictatorship, the torture state and extrajudicial violence by police and paramilitaries rose that crest to power and in turn it is what continues to keep him there," Georgetown University Professor Ananya Chakravarti tweeted, adding that "Franco bore the brunt of the backlash for her fight against racist police brutality."
More:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-New-Arrests-in-Relation-to-Marielle-Francos-Murder-20200610-0001.html