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RIO – Operation Déjà vu, carried out this Wednesday morning, showed the similarities between the murders of former police officer André Henrique da Silva, André Zóio and his partner, Juliana Sales de Oliveira, in June 2014, and of the councilor Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes, in March 2018. The relationship between the crimes made Marielle’s family members highlight the progress in the investigations. Anielle Franco, sister of the councilor, and Mônica Benício, widow of the parliamentarian, spoke on social networks when they received the news about the action that targeted former councilor Cristiano Girão, militiaman Leandro Siqueira de Assis, Leandro Cabecção or Gargalhone. , Retired PM Ronnie Lessa and two other men.
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Mônica highlighted how the investigations of the Marielle Case contributed to the connection, for the first time, between Girão and Lessa in the same criminal action. Police also pointed to Wednesday’s raid as a step toward those who ordered the councilwoman’s death. The investigations reached the suspects six years later, with the result of the violation of the confidentiality of Lessa’s digital data, authorized by the judge of the 4th Jury Court, Gustavo Kalil, on the occasion of the Marielle Case. Investigators found that the retired sergeant used Google’s search engine to search for the deaths of Zóio and Juliana in 2018.
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Marielle’s sister, Anielle, also cited the relationship between the former councilor and the retired prime minister in a murder case. She also pointed out that, so far, there is no identification of the author of the crime, which today completes the 910.
Ronnie Lessa Signature
After verifying Lessa’s belated interest in the double homicide, the investigation concluded that the characteristics of the crime against Zóio and Juliana in Gardênia in 2014 were similar to the ambush that would kill Marielle and Anderson four years later: shots from inside A car. against the occupants of another vehicle, obstructed by criminals.
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For investigators, the sequence of shots with the car in motion, the double homicide, although the target was only one of the occupants of the vehicle, and the accuracy of the shots indicates that the crime has Lessa’s signature.
Another point in common was the use of an automatic weapon, in the case of Zóio, an M16 rifle, a small weapon with little recoil. In Marielle’s death, the killers used a submachine gun.
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The murder of the couple took place around 10 in the morning. At the time, a resident who declined to be named said the killers had been waiting for André Zóio since 8 a.m.
In Gardênia Azul, the militia’s business included receiving rents, selling real estate and land, and even managing an area where a slab factory was closed.
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Participation in the Marielle case
Girão, appointed as head of the Gardênia Azul militia, had appeared in one of the police investigation lines in the Marielle case. However, even in the first phase of the investigation, the suspicion was dropped. The former councilor was arrested in 2009 for commanding the Gardênia Azul militia. His name was one of those that appear in the report of the Parliamentary Investigation Commission (CPI) of the Militia, whose president was the then State Deputy Marcelo Freixo (PSOL), completed in 2008.
After eight years in prison, for having been convicted of the crime of illicit association, Girão received a pardon in August 2017. He served most of his sentence in the federal prisons of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul and, finally, in Porto Velho, in Rondônia.
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Called to testify on August 15, 2018, Girão confirmed that he was on March 7, 2018, a week before the death of Marielle and Anderson, at City Hall. He affirmed that he accompanied his wife Edna Marinho Brum to medical examinations at the Center, and took the opportunity to visit colleagues at the time of his mandate, such as the president of the Chamber, Jorge Filippe, and Chiquinho Brazão (Avante).
As an alibi at the time of the crime, on March 14, 2018, he told the police that he was at the Rio Brasa grill, in Barra da Tijuca, where he remained until midnight. The former firefighter said he was with his wife and a businessman from São Paulo, in the fashion industry.
