The brothers Domingos and Chiquinho Brazão, along with former Rio Civil Police chief Rivaldo Barbosa, were arrested on Sunday morning (24) during Operation Murder Inc.
“The institute brings history back to life. […] The whole world wants to know who and why Marielle was killed,” Marinete da Silva, the councilwoman’s mother and founding adviser of the Marielle Franco Institute, told Agência Brasil.
In 27 percent of cases where women were killed by firearms, the crime occurred inside the victim's own home. Among non-Black women, this rate rises to 34 percent.
Femicide is a qualification of the crime of intentional homicide—a murder resulting from violence against women because of their sex. Last year, 1,400 women were killed countrywide
In late October 2022, Rubens Villar Pereira, who is believed to have been the mastermind behind the murders, was granted bail after posting BRL 15,000.
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