Brazil - Marielle Franco, 38, politician, fatally shot, Rio de Janeiro, 14 Mar 2018

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Marielle Franco, 38, a black politician from Rio de Janeiro, died fighting for rights of women and favela-dwellers. As a councilwoman from the Maré favela, she denounced the police brutality that favela residents, most of them black, regularly experienced.


On Wednesday around 9:20 p.m., armed men gunned the councilwoman down in her car in the center of Rio de Janeiro with nine shots—four shots to the head. Her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, also died. She had just left an event that she organized about black women’s empowerment.


https://www.theroot.com/say-her-name-marielle-franco-a-brazilian-politician-w-1823812564

Thank you for sharing rsd1200. What a truly heroic woman, such a tragedy.

Wow. What an amazing woman! So devastating...

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Fabio Teixeira and Ricardo Brito 24 March 2024 rbbm

''RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian police arrested three people on Sunday, including a federal lawmaker, in connection to the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, two sources at the federal police told Reuters.
Federal police arrested Congressman Chiquinho Brazao, his brother Domingos Brazao, a councilor on the Rio de Janeiro state audit court (TCE) and former Rio police chief Rivaldo Barbosa, said the two sources''
''Franco, 38, was a black, openly gay and progressive councilwoman born in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. Investigators believe her killing to be a political assassination carried out by paid hit men.''

'Marielle Franco earned a reputation as a courageous defender of Brazil’s minorities and a campaigner against police violencePhotograph: Mario Vasconcellos/AFP/Getty Images'

''Two powerful politicians and Rio de Janeiro’s former chief of police have been arrested as part of a federal police operation targeting the suspected masterminds of the 2018 assassination of Rio councillor Marielle Franco.
The operation – named Murder, Inc – was launched at the crack of dawn on Sunday and came just over six years after the shooting of Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, caused an international outcry.
Brazilian media reports said three prominent figures were arrested: the federal congressman, Chiquinho Brazão; his brother, the former state congressman, Domingos Brazão; and the former head of Rio’s civil police, Rivaldo Barbosa.
The Brazão brothers have long faced accusations of involvement in organized crime – claims they have denied. During the 1980s the men were reportedly known in Rio as the “Irmãos Metralha” (The Beagle Boys) – a reference to the Disney cartoon villains.''