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RIO – Fourteen cities in the state of Rio have reports of infiltration of militiamen and traffickers in the electoral process. This is revealed in a report prepared by the Hotline at the request of GLOBO, based on the calls received by the agency from the beginning of the campaign, on September 27, until the last day 13. Most of the complaints report actions of militiamen to interfere. in the elections, 24 in total. Another 13 point to the influence of trafficking. In five municipalities, complaints were reported by both traffickers and paramilitaries directing votes and preventing the presence of candidates: Río, Itaguaí, Duque de Caxias, Belford Roxo and Niterói.
The document indicates the influence of the militia in nine cities, five in Baixada Fluminense. The complaints denounce the participation of candidates in gangs, the support of groups for certain candidates, and even threats of reprisals by the militia against the inhabitants of the favelas if their representatives are not elected.
Nova Iguaçu is the city in the state with the most complaints of militia participation in the elections, nine in total. The municipality is the same where two councilor candidates were assassinated. One of them, Domingos Barbosa Cabral, 57, executed by hooded men in a bar in the Corumbá neighborhood on the night of the 10th, is the brother of Sergeant PM André Barbosa Cabral, arrested in July and accused by the Public Ministry of being head of the militia that dominates. part of the municipality. Domingos was arrested on the spot with a 9mm pistol in the same operation that arrested his brother in July. I would discuss the choice for the DEM.
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According to the report Disque Denuncia, “highlights the number of complaints that report on the candidacy of members of the militias. In these cases, specifically, the militiamen use their influence in the community and, through threats, seek to obtain more votes ”. All the complaints cited in the document were referred to the Civil Police.
– Most of the reports we receive point to threats of reprisals against the population, if the candidate supported by the group is not elected – says Zeca Borges, coordinator of the Direct Line. – For example, the militiamen say that the “security rate” will increase if residents do not choose a specific person. One change that we detected in relation to past elections is that, this time, the complaints report that the candidates are part of the militias and not only supported by them.
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The border between Nova Iguaçu, Itaguaí -both in Baixada Fluminense- and Santa Cruz, a neighborhood in the West Zone of the capital, is considered by the Civil Police Task Force created to combat militias in the electoral period as the area most critical of the state. It was precisely in the region where 17 people died in a 24-hour interval between 14 and 15, in two actions by the Task Force. In Baixada Fluminense, there are also complaints about the electoral action of the militias in Duque de Caxias, Itaguaí, São João de Meriti and Queimados, in addition to Nova Iguaçu. In the capital, most of the militias that operate in the city today have some type of association with drug trafficking, an association that has been called “narcomilícia”, as O GLOBO showed yesterday.
At least one candidate in the Baixada is under arrest on charges of joining a militia. Márcio Cardoso Pagniez, Marcinho Bombeiro (PSL), former mayor of Belford Roxo, was denounced by the parliamentarian in September last year for leading a militia known as “Tropa de Marcinho”. According to investigations, the group is accused of executing two men captured using drugs in Belford Roxo in April 2017. Despite the fact that Márcio was arrested, his campaign is advancing at full speed. On social media there are pictures of events and brochures made by his “team”. In one of the photos, a woman holds the sign with the phrase: “My councilor is not ‘present’, but his team is faithful.”
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The document also details complaints that expose traffickers’ interference in the elections. According to the report, “candidates offer money to traffickers to receive electoral support for trafficking in the community.” The Hotline also received reports that traffickers are collecting tolls in the slums of the Metropolitan Region so that candidates can campaign there. The municipality with the most reports on the influence of trafficking in campaigns is São Gonçalo.
Candidate relatives
Two candidates from Baixada Fluminense are relatives of trafficking heads of state who are imprisoned in federal jails. Cristiano Santos Hermógenes, candidate for mayor of Belford Roxo for the PL is the brother of Márcio dos Santos Nepomuceno, vice-president of Marcinho, head of trafficking of the Complexo do Alemão imprisoned in Catanduvas, Paraná. Fernanda Costa, candidate for councilor for the BMD in Caxias, is the daughter of Luiz Fernando da Costa, Fernandinho Beira-Mar, named number one in the hierarchy of the largest drug trafficking faction in Rio.
In Araruama, in the Lagos Region, another city mentioned in the survey, an investigation by the Civil Police confirmed the attempt to influence the elections. During the investigation into the murder of the journalist and candidate for councilor Leonardo Soriano Pereira Pinheiro, Léo Pinheiro, in May of this year, the 118 DP concluded that a prime minister had the support of drug traffickers to elect his councilor.
The police concluded that Pinheiro was assassinated at the behest of Sergeant Alan Marques de Oliveira because the journalist’s candidacy threatened the election of the prime minister’s wife, the dentist Elisabete Faria Abreu, Oliveira’s wife, who is running for the DEM for a position at City Hall. Oliveira and Marques acted in the same electoral strongholds. According to the testimony of a witness before being assassinated, Pinheiro received threats from traffickers in the area who assured that “only a candidate could work in the neighborhood, and his closest candidate would be Alan Marques.” The sergeant was arrested last Saturday.
Another candidate is accused by the MP of using drug trafficking to form an electoral corral in Japeri, in Baixada Fluminense. Carlos Moraes Costa (PP), mayor of Japeri arrested in 2018 for trafficking association, seeks re-election. According to the deputy, the mayor’s alliance with organized crime was aimed at forming electoral corrals in areas dominated by traffickers. According to the complaint, Moraes “used his mandate to transmit privileged information and articulate integrated actions that would allow the gang to freely carry out its illegal activities.” In a call intercepted by the police, the police surprised Moares by warning a drug trafficker about an operation that police from 24 BPM (Queimados) would carry out in the Community of Guandu to avoid a funk dance.
