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RIO – “The black man is born suspicious,” the singer and samba singer Neguinho da Beija-Flor said several times when speaking about the death of his grandson Gabriel Ribeiro Marcondes, 20, in Morro da Bacia, in Ambaí, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu. The young man was one of three killed among the four shot during a shootout between military police and bandits in an attempt to prevent a funk dance. Neguinho spoke of getting closer to the residents of the community and that, if the death penalty is ever implemented in Brazil, “there will be no black left.”
According to the singer, the family has been “devastated” since Gabriel’s death, last Sunday the 18th. The case intensified Neguinho’s desire to leave the country in search of offering other living conditions for his 12-year-old daughter Luisa Flor Morena . years.
– Having a black son in the country, if you think about it, is a very big responsibility. We are worried.
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The sambista compared the situations he went through “when he was not Neguinho da Beija-Flor”, still in his youth, in Nova Iguaçu. Police approaches were based on “loitering law” and structural prejudice. Reflecting on what he still sees and lives, he says that his son Paulo César Marcondes, Gabriel’s father, will seek justice.
– My son is suing the state. The justification is this: “Your grandson was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Wish I was where? In a shopping center in Barra? Here in Copacabana? If all places in Rio are dangerous. It is very easy to do justice to black without defense. I once asked a friend, a great jurist, what would happen if the death penalty was accepted in the country. He said: “Only whites will live, they will kill all blacks.” Blacks are already natural suspects. In black, they shoot first and then they know who it is – he said.
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Neguinho also compared the operations carried out inside and outside the communities:
– Now that I see that they arrest some … White, where is the real problem? Arrested and released. Loose! White millionaires, they arrest, and soon they’re on the loose. They have habeas corpus, ankle brace, which does not prevent them from taking a jet and going out. Negro is arrested while he is still a suspect. And stay, you have no money to pay a good lawyer.
Leaving the country
The sambista did not give a date of when he intends to leave Brazil. The plan is not new. It was interrupted by the arrival of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Time at home without the shows hurt the family’s savings.
– (I think) A long time ago. It just didn’t happen with the pandemic. No show, I had to spend it all, I just left. The support I had, for that purpose, was everything. I will not raise my daughter here after what happened to Gabriel. I really will not – said the singer.
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Going abroad was also a plan for Gabriel, if he had invested professionally in football. The cheerful and good young man, as described by friends and family, loved the sport. Now it is up to the grandfather to cooperate with the family and the investigations to prove the innocence of the young man. Neguinho will accompany his son Paulo Cesar Marcondes, Gabriel’s father, in a statement on 58 DP (Posse).
– My grandson played ball. He did not want, otherwise he would find a way to take a ball to Europe. Look at your destination there. I was not involved in anything, but I will have to show that I was not involved in anything. You only hear the part that matters. And there are people who say ‘thank God, minus one! “Because it was not his son, he did not see the act – he said.
The plans for change also reach another son of Neguinho who also acts in the assembly of events, like Gabriel. He wants to get out of the area. Gabriel was working when he was shot. He did not resist and then died.
