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Assassination of Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and activist, was fatally shot on 14 March 2018, in Estácio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The assassins were in a car that pulled up alongside the Rio de Janeiro councilwoman's car and fired several shots, which also killed the driver, Anderson Gomes. Former military police officers Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Vieira de Queiroz confessed to the killings and, on 31 October 2024, were convicted by a jury and sentenced to 59 and 78 years in prison, respectively.
On 24 March 2024, brothers Domingos Brazão and Chiquinho Brazão were arrested after being denounced as masterminds of the attack against Marielle Franco. Detective Rivaldo Barbosa was also arrested, suspected of obstructing the investigations and also intellectually orchestrating the crime. On 25 February 2026, Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão were unanimously convicted by the Supreme Court for ordering the hit against Marielle and Anderson Gomes and both were sentenced to 76 years in prison.
Marielle arrived at the Casa das Pretas, on rua dos Inválidos, in Lapa, to mediate a debate promoted by the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) with young black women, around 7:00 pm. According to images obtained by the police, a Cobalt with a Nova Iguaçu license plate, a city in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro, was parked near the venue.
Around 11:00 pm, Marielle left the Casa das Pretas with an aide and a driver and was soon followed by a car of the same model that had been parked near the site. Around 11:30 PM, on Joaquim Paralhes Street in Estácio, thirteen shots were fired from a vehicle pulled up next to Marielle's car. Nine hit the car frame and four hit the windows. The councilwoman was hit by three shots to the head and one to the neck and the driver was shot at least three times in the back, killing them both. The aide was hit by shrapnel, taken to a hospital, and was later released. Police stated that they believe her car was pursued for about four kilometers. The executioners fled the scene without taking any property.
Images taken from local cameras revealed that a second vehicle might have provided cover for the criminals who fired the shots. In addition, other images showed two men sitting inside a vehicle for two hours at the site of an event that the councilwoman had attended shortly before. According to the police, the ammunition used, a 9mm caliber, cannot be sold to civilians in general. Rede Globo reported that the ammunition belonged to a batch sold to the Federal Police, a fact confirmed by the Civil Police. Investigators believed that the councilwoman was followed from the Lapa event, for four kilometers, until she passed through a place of less traffic, where the attack took place.
Chief of police Rivaldo Barbosa was investigating the possibility of an execution, since the passengers' belongings were not taken by the shooters and the councilwoman was an activist in poor communities, having been active in defense of the human rights of the residents of these localities, especially black people and women, and had even denounced killings by police officers. On the Saturday before the crime, Marielle had denounced on social networks the 41st Military Police Battalion, in Acari, which had been indicated by the Public Security Institute as the deadliest in the previous five years.
Forensics discovered that the 9mm caliber ammunition that killed the Rio de Janeiro councilwoman was from the same batch as part of the projectiles used in the largest massacre in the state of São Paulo. The murders of seventeen people occurred in Barueri and Osasco Greater São Paulo, on 13 August 2015. Three military police officers and a civil guard were convicted of these killings. According to the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, this lot had been sold to the Federal Police of Brasília by the company Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos on 29 December 2006. Technical analysis also revealed that the ammunition was original. That is, it was not reloaded because the primer, which causes the propellant to ignite, was original. The Federal Police opened an investigation to determine the origin of the ammunition and how it arrived in Rio de Janeiro.
The Extraordinary Minister of Public Security, Raul Jungmann, said that the ammunition used was stolen from the Post Office headquarters in Paraíba, years before. PF sources said that the lot with two million rounds was widely distributed among the corporation's units and that the units in São Paulo and the Federal District received the largest amount, more than two hundred thousand rounds each. In addition, the minister said that the Federal Police had already appointed a fingerprint and DNA expert to examine the ammunition, and would compare the results with its database, in order to find out who committed the crime.
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Assassination of Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and activist, was fatally shot on 14 March 2018, in Estácio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The assassins were in a car that pulled up alongside the Rio de Janeiro councilwoman's car and fired several shots, which also killed the driver, Anderson Gomes. Former military police officers Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Vieira de Queiroz confessed to the killings and, on 31 October 2024, were convicted by a jury and sentenced to 59 and 78 years in prison, respectively.
On 24 March 2024, brothers Domingos Brazão and Chiquinho Brazão were arrested after being denounced as masterminds of the attack against Marielle Franco. Detective Rivaldo Barbosa was also arrested, suspected of obstructing the investigations and also intellectually orchestrating the crime. On 25 February 2026, Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão were unanimously convicted by the Supreme Court for ordering the hit against Marielle and Anderson Gomes and both were sentenced to 76 years in prison.
Marielle arrived at the Casa das Pretas, on rua dos Inválidos, in Lapa, to mediate a debate promoted by the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) with young black women, around 7:00 pm. According to images obtained by the police, a Cobalt with a Nova Iguaçu license plate, a city in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro, was parked near the venue.
Around 11:00 pm, Marielle left the Casa das Pretas with an aide and a driver and was soon followed by a car of the same model that had been parked near the site. Around 11:30 PM, on Joaquim Paralhes Street in Estácio, thirteen shots were fired from a vehicle pulled up next to Marielle's car. Nine hit the car frame and four hit the windows. The councilwoman was hit by three shots to the head and one to the neck and the driver was shot at least three times in the back, killing them both. The aide was hit by shrapnel, taken to a hospital, and was later released. Police stated that they believe her car was pursued for about four kilometers. The executioners fled the scene without taking any property.
Images taken from local cameras revealed that a second vehicle might have provided cover for the criminals who fired the shots. In addition, other images showed two men sitting inside a vehicle for two hours at the site of an event that the councilwoman had attended shortly before. According to the police, the ammunition used, a 9mm caliber, cannot be sold to civilians in general. Rede Globo reported that the ammunition belonged to a batch sold to the Federal Police, a fact confirmed by the Civil Police. Investigators believed that the councilwoman was followed from the Lapa event, for four kilometers, until she passed through a place of less traffic, where the attack took place.
Chief of police Rivaldo Barbosa was investigating the possibility of an execution, since the passengers' belongings were not taken by the shooters and the councilwoman was an activist in poor communities, having been active in defense of the human rights of the residents of these localities, especially black people and women, and had even denounced killings by police officers. On the Saturday before the crime, Marielle had denounced on social networks the 41st Military Police Battalion, in Acari, which had been indicated by the Public Security Institute as the deadliest in the previous five years.
Forensics discovered that the 9mm caliber ammunition that killed the Rio de Janeiro councilwoman was from the same batch as part of the projectiles used in the largest massacre in the state of São Paulo. The murders of seventeen people occurred in Barueri and Osasco Greater São Paulo, on 13 August 2015. Three military police officers and a civil guard were convicted of these killings. According to the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, this lot had been sold to the Federal Police of Brasília by the company Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos on 29 December 2006. Technical analysis also revealed that the ammunition was original. That is, it was not reloaded because the primer, which causes the propellant to ignite, was original. The Federal Police opened an investigation to determine the origin of the ammunition and how it arrived in Rio de Janeiro.
The Extraordinary Minister of Public Security, Raul Jungmann, said that the ammunition used was stolen from the Post Office headquarters in Paraíba, years before. PF sources said that the lot with two million rounds was widely distributed among the corporation's units and that the units in São Paulo and the Federal District received the largest amount, more than two hundred thousand rounds each. In addition, the minister said that the Federal Police had already appointed a fingerprint and DNA expert to examine the ammunition, and would compare the results with its database, in order to find out who committed the crime.