Federal prosecutors mention armed criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, and damage to federal property and to a heritage site. A total of 835 have been targeted so far.
Prosecutors argue Pereira and Phillips were ambushed and killed after Pereira asked Phillips to photograph the boat belonging to the defendants in order to document the illicit practices.
Moïse Kabagambe, a young Congolese immigrant, was brutually beaten to death at a beach kiost in the Barra da Tijuca district of western Rio de Janeiro, on January 24.
A federal court accepted the charges filed by federal prosecutors against former Italian activist Cesare Battisti, accused of violating the national financial system by attempting to leave Brazil and go to Bolivia early in October, with some US$6 thousand and €1,300 undeclared
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