Brazil’s Supreme Court justices in panel vote unanimously to convict plotters of Marielle Franco’s assassination

I giudici della Corte Suprema del Brasile votano all’unanimità per condannare i complici dell’assassinio di Marielle Franco


Brazil’s Supreme Court Judges Flavio Dino and Alexandre de Moraes sit on the day of the first session of the trial of suspects accused of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018, at the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, (Reuters)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court voted on Wednesday to convict a former lawmaker and four others for their involvement in the assassination of councilwoman and human-rights activist Marielle Franco around eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro, alongside her driver Anderson Gomes.

All four justices on the panel found that former Congressman Chiquinho Brazao and his brother Domingos Brazao, a councilor on the Rio de Janeiro state audit court, ordered Franco’s murder in 2018 to stop her and her political party from creating obstacles to their illegal landgrabbing scheme.

A rising star in Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party, Franco was a 38-year-old Black and gay progressive council member born in a poor Rio neighborhood. The targeting of an elected official of Franco’s stature shocked Rio de Janeiro, despite its long history of urban violence, and sparked widespread outrage in Brazil and internationally.

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