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On Tuesday (2), a priest was arrested in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, suspected of robbing at least three commercial establishments in the city with a fake gun. According to G1, the crimes occurred in sequence in two markets and a pharmacy in the city of Rio Grande do Sul.
Through the security images of one of the supermarkets, it is possible to see the priest with a red cap and a protective mask against Covid-19. As he passes his belongings, he walks over to the cashier and pulls out the fake gun, forcing the clerk to give him the money. It was also said that he fled in a van, later identified as belonging to the city’s archdiocese. The suspect, named Elizeu Lisboa Moreira, 28, was recognized by the victims and, according to reports, took an amount of approximately R $ 2,400.
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During the approach, the military police found with him the toy gun that would have been used in the robberies, in addition to R $ 655, food and hygiene products taken from the stolen places. The religious was arrested and taken to the police station. The fate of the rest of the money remains a mystery, according to Police Chief Diogo Ferreira. “We don’t know if he owed something or bought something”, he stated.
“The police drew up a record of arrest on the spot for the three robberies carried out by the priest, who was represented by preventive detention for the series of robberies that occurred in a short time and in different locations in the city.”, he said. According to Ferreira, the police are still investigating the case. “We are trying to understand what led the priest to do this. We still can’t get to motivation. He didn’t say much during the act and he was very calm “, reported.
Ferreira also reported that the priest said little during questioning. “He said that the crimes were committed in a moment of madness. It was the only sentence he said. He was totally calm, it seemed that he had not realized what he was doing and that he was in the world of the moon. The toy gun you used must not weigh 10 grams, it is plastic and hollow. An inexplicable fact “, he stated.
The archbishop demonstrates after the arrest of the priest
According to the Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Dom Rodolfo Luís Weber, Moreira never showed any behavior to explain these aggressions and was well liked in the community: “It is a behavior that is out of all logic. What we learned today is that three weeks ago he stopped taking psychiatric medication on his own. Perhaps it is one of the factors that has triggered this type of behavior. We do not know”.
“The most impacted of all is me, who accompanies the training of these young people. Newly ordained, he was a person who did well in his job. And suddenly, such an event happens. It is shocking. It’s sad. It is very painful “, set.
Elizeu was ordained a priest in 2019 and has since worked in a parish in the municipality of Tapejara. He had no criminal record. Preventively detained at the Passo Fundo Penitentiary, he was temporarily suspended from his duties in the Catholic Church. The case is being analyzed by the Judiciary and the priest is accompanied by a lawyer hired by the family.
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