Prosecutor’s reports 12 police officers

Officers from the state of Paraná have been charged with murder,

Published on 04/08/2014 - 17:34 By Alex Rodrigues reports from Agência Brasil - Brasília

VIATURA PM PARANÁ

The 12 police reported have been deprived of their positionsASCOM PM PARANÁ

The Special Group for Fighting Organized Crime (“Gaeco”) of the state of Paraná has indicted 12 military police for murder, torture and concealment of a dead body. Responsible for fighting organized crime and inspecting the police from outside, Gaeco is formed by members of the Public Prosecution Office, the Military as well as the Civil Police, and the Finance Secretariat.

In the first case reported, five military police officers apprehended three young men on suspicion of having participated in a robbery in the city of Curitiba, and took them to a thicket nearby, where the policemen executed them. Next, they fabricated a charge of resistance to arrest, claiming the victims had attempted to shoot them.

The second report, in turn, concerns seven police who, according to Gaeco, were involved in the death of bricklayer Edenilson Rodrigues as well as the concealment of his body in May 2013, in Piraquara, when the officers, as part of an investigation into drug trafficking, went to Rodrigues’s house, subdued everyone present and attacked Rodrigues physically. Prosecutors claim the victim died from the aggression, and that the police afterwards hid his corpse.

The 12 police reported have been deprived of their positions, but remain doing internal tasks, as they await their trial.


Translated by Fabrício Ferreira


Fonte: Prosecutor’s Office reports 12 police officers

Edition: Talita Cavalcante / Augusto Queiroz

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