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SÃO PAULO – Raúl Fernando do Amaral Street, Doca Street, died this Friday at the age of 86. He became nationally known after murdering the socialist Angela Diniz with four shots to the face in December 1976.
Information about Doca Street’s death was confirmed to GLOBO by relatives of Street. According to one of his granddaughters, who did not want to be identified, he was not ill and suffered cardiac arrest.
The murder of Ângela Diniz was a milestone in the feminist movement in Brazil, which was beginning to take shape. The women were unhappy with the treatment given to the victim, who was independent, wealthy and had her life devastated by the defense of Doca Street, who used the thesis of “legitimate defense of honor” to justify the crime.
If today, the crime would be femicide.
Angela and Doca Street met at a dinner in São Paulo and had only been together for four months. He left his wife and children to live with the socialite at their home in Búzios, and it was Angela who paid the expenses. On January 30, 1976, the two had spent the day at the beach. Controller, he began to suppress Angela’s behavior, which began to generate constant fights.
The crime occurred during an argument, in which Angela tried to end the relationship.
Even today, most murders of women are criminalized by a partner or ex-partner, and the end of relationships is often one of the most common reasons.
The movement in defense of the memory of Angela and for the punishment of Doca Street coined the motto “who loves does not kill”, which is still used today. The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade would have written in his defense: “That girl continues to be murdered every day and in different ways.”
Doca Street left the pistol next to the body and fled to Minas Gerais. At the first trial in 1979, he was sentenced to two years in prison, but was not arrested because he was entitled to a conditional suspension of his sentence.
listens: Podcast recounts the murder of Ângela Diniz to answer: how does a man kill a woman with four shots to the face and become a hero?
With the repercussions of the case, he was brought to a new trial. In 1981, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In the first trial, lawyer Evandro Lins e Silva transformed Doca Street into a young man hopelessly in love, who allowed himself to be subjugated by Angela, referred to as a “loved object”.
“Of course, he gets out of control in everything he does, his resistance sapped by the sick passion that overwhelms him,” he told the jury.
For Angela, in the defense speech of Doca Street, it was the role of “fatal woman”, which led men to act “against their own nature.”
“Jurors, the fatal woman, enchants, seduces, dominates, as was the case of Raúl Fernando do Amaral street,” said the lawyer.
Feminists took to the streets, in protest against the defense thesis.
At the second trial, Doca Street was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder and served his sentence.
The Doca Street trial and conviction served to challenge the sexist way in which laws are interpreted in court.
Last month, he was 86 years old. He leaves behind three children, ten grandchildren and a great-grandson.
The murder case was chronicled by the Praia dos Ossos podcast this year.
