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The parliamentarian was transferred this Thursday afternoon (15) to Ceresp Gameleira, where he will serve preventive detention
Arrested and preemptively investigated for participation in the murder of Councilor Hamilton Dias, from Funilândia in July of this year in front of the Vila Oeste metro station, Councilor Ronaldo Batista (PSC) testified on Thursday afternoon (15) in the Department of Homicides and Protection of Persons (DHPP) of the Civil Police of Minas Gerais (PCMG).
Leaving DHPP without being handcuffed, towards Ceresp da Gameleira, the parliamentarian said few words. He denied being involved in the crime, said he knew the victim for a short time and that the disagreement between the two was due to Ronaldo taking over the union instead of Hamilton.
Asked then why he was not running for reelection, a politician blamed the exposure of the case in the press: “It was because of that. You exposed (sic) my image. You didn’t even expect me to be tried and convicted yet, you’ve already convicted me. “
Ronaldo was arrested late in the morning in Bairro Castelo, in the Pampulha region. The councilor was traveling in a truck on Avenida Tancredo Neves when he approached him. He did not resist arrest and officers took him away in the back seat. Another five people were arrested in the operation on Thursday in compliance with court orders, in the capital, in cities of the metropolitan region and in a municipality in another region not disclosed by the Civil Police.
The criminal lawyer Antônio Salvo, who defends the councilor in this case, said that the councilor’s testimony lasted about twenty minutes and most of the five hours that the parliamentarian spent in the police station was waiting for other steps: “They [Ronaldo e a vítima] They had political, union problems, nothing to justify Ronaldo taking such action. He flatly denies it, ”said the lawyer. The defender also said that the dispute between the two councilors and union leaders also unfolds in trials.
According to Ronaldo’s son and president of the PSC in Belo Horizonte, Douglas Batista, he was with his father after the arrest and the parliamentarian seemed calm: “He is very calm, he only asked to reassure our family and we will wait for him. investigations, but he is always ready to collaborate with the justice system, ”said the son.
This Friday (16), the PCMG should detail in a press conference the participation of those involved in the case, which took place in secret. Wanted, the Belo Horizonte City Council advisor said he would not comment on the case, because the crime under investigation had no correlation with the mandate of Ronaldo Batista’s councilor.
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