Carrefour closes store where black customer was killed by security guards | Companies

The company confirmed the temporary closure of the store. According to the newspaper “Zero Hora”, a demonstration of residents of Passo D’Areia is scheduled at 6 pm in the unit. The case is being investigated by the Second Homicide Police Station of Porto Alegre.

The death of Freitas is the most commented topic on Twitter this Friday morning, Black Awareness Day -through hashtags such as # justiçaporbeto and # vidapretasimportam-, and leads the first four places in the ten most cited topics on the social network. In total, there were almost 280,000 tweets around 11:30 am.

In Google Trends, the words “Porto Alegre”, “beatings” and “Carrefour” lead the search in the last 24 hours, in real time analysis.

On the market, the company’s shares opened slightly lower and, right now, were down 0.50%. GPA’s share rose 2.55%.

Freitas, 40, was beaten in a Carrefour supermarket drive Thursday night. The images were recorded and disseminated on social networks. In a note, Carrefour called it a criminal act and announced the breach of the contract with a company that “is responsible for the security guards who committed the attack.” The company does not provide the company name.

The Military Brigade, as the Rio Grande do Sul Military Police are called, reported that the beating began after a disagreement between the victim and a supermarket employee.

In 2018, the case of the dog ‘Manchinha’, who was killed by a security guard in a store of the retail group in Osasco (SP), gained repercussion on social networks. At the time, the company said it would implement a plan on behalf of animal-related causes.