RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Key evidence for the progress of the investigations into the murder of Marielle Franco is now gone.
A UOL report released on Sunday, October 13th, discloses that the Rio de Janeiro Homicide Police Station has lost footage that could confirm who killed the city councilor, brutally murdered in March 2018 in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
According to the report, sources linked to the investigation confirmed that images recorded by CCTV cameras from an establishment in the Tijuca neighborhood, to which police officers had access, were lost minutes after the crime.
The evidence would help identify the occupants of the silver Cobalt that stopped alongside Marielle’s car and her driver, Anderson Gomes, to carry out the murder.
“The officers went to the scene shortly after the attack, saved the images on a flash drive and returned approximately two weeks later claiming that they had lost the material. However, the footage could not be retrieved this time,” says the story signed by Flávio Costa and Mariana Lang.
The Prosecutor’s Office points out, in a denunciation which has been accepted by a court, retired state police officer Ronnie Lessa and the former PM Élcio Vieira de Queiroz as the people in the car and the perpetrators of the crime. Their defense rejects the accusation.
Requested to comment, the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro confined itself to reporting that the investigations of the case are under judicial seal.
Source: Forum