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Justice today ordered the release of André Andrade Mezzette, 29, detained after the soldier of the PM-SP (São Paulo Military Police) Felipe da Silva Joaquim, 30, said that he suffered an attempted robbery on last Friday (28) in Tremembé, north of the capital. That night, the policeman hit the motoboy, which was unarmed.
Judge Tania da Silva Amorim Fiuza, of the TJ-SP (São Paulo Court of Justice), said that the new evidence provided by Mezzette’s defense showed that the facts “are nebulous” and that there are “well-founded doubts” about the accusation police. military man who had tried to steal it.
The magistrate says she had access to videos made available by Mezzette’s defense, which helped support her decision. According to her, the PM did not clearly indicate in the statements that there was a robbery announcement or that a firearm was exhibited.
The motorcycle courier, according to the ruling, said he was working as a pizza delivery man that night when he stopped on the street to touch his cell phone. He said the prime minister stopped his motorcycle in front of him and asked him what he was doing. The agent later said, “Get out, get out, get out!” Even after the courier replied that he was just working, Mezzette stated.
The prime minister then, according to the testimony of the motorcyclist, “went on the attack by punching him in the face.” They fought and the prime minister said he would “get a BO” for the motoboy. Minutes later, Mezzette said in testimony, several vehicles arrived and then Joaquim said he was a military policeman.
The judge specified that the motoboy must comply with some precautionary measures, such as a monthly appearance in court, informing of a possible change of address and the prohibition to leave the city where he lives for more than eight days without prior communication to the court.
Prosecutor supported the action of the PM
Yesterday, the prosecutor María Gabriela Ahualli Steinberg supported the actions of the PM in a demonstration issued in the investigation of the case. She advocated maintaining the preventive prison of the motoboy.
In the request, he stated that there was an “attempted robbery, which was not consumed because the victim was a military policeman and reacted to the assault” and that “the practice of violent crimes is growing in the city and, if not for the victim, police military, certainly the result would have been different. “
A video made by residents of the neighborhood shows the motoboy on the ground, dominated by the soldier. The images captured insults and attacks by the PM against the motoboy.
When recording, Mezzette he tells the military policeman that he was smoking marijuana, and the prime minister responds, “God knows what you did.” The police officer then points a pistol at the motorcyclist’s head, drags him out into the street and kicks him in the back.
The images led the SSP (Ministry of Public Security) to withdraw the soldier from operational service. Mezzette was hit with the butt of a rifle (blows to the head with a revolver) and received three points on the forehead for the assaults.
