Mother of dead dancer to appeal to Amnesty International
Maria de Fátima da Silva will appeal to Amnesty International next week to require clarifications over her son’s death. (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil)
Nurse technician Maria de Fátima da Silva, mother of 26-year-old dancer Douglas Rafael, who was found dead last Tuesday (Apr. 22) at a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, said on Thursday (24) she will appeal to Amnesty International next week to require clarifications over her son’s death.
“I want this case to be thoroughly investigated. I’ll go to Amnesty International next week. I won’t let this fall into oblivion. The Pacifying Police Unit is a fraud. They come, they set up iron containers, they fill it with people with no training – and their enemy is the people. My son will not become statistics,” she declared.
According to Maria de Fátima, her son “was tortured to death with refinements of cruelty. I followed the case at the Forensic Institute. I saw what happened. His skull had been sunk in, there was a cut on his supercilium, a lot of blood in his mouth, and a hemorrhage in his chest. He was wet and all his documents were wet.”
The Rio de Janeiro police confirmed on Wednesday (23) that the dancer had been shot. The report from the Forensic Institute states that the young man was put to death by an “internal hemorrhage due to (…) wound in chest.”
In an interview, Security Secretary of Rio de Janeiro José Mariano Beltrame said he has been following the investigations over the dancer’s death closely, in order to show society their outcomes with utmost transparency. “And I want these investigations to be quick, because it’s crucial in resuming the work [of the pacifying police], which currently serves 9 million people, with 9 thousand officers placed in areas historically taken over by drug traffickers.”
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
Fonte: Mother of dead dancer to appeal to Amnesty International
