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RIO – The information that the mayor of Rio established a scheme at the doors of hospitals to avoid complaints and denunciations will be analyzed by the Public Ministry of Rio (MPRJ). It was with the pandemic that the “RJ2” and “TV Globo” reporters realized that, every time they interviewed a person in a municipal health unit, an employee hindered the report. It turned out, then, that public officials were being paid to guard the entrance, to shame and threaten journalists and citizens who denounce problems. In a note, the MPRJ explains that “the news will actually be forwarded to one of the prosecutors of the Citizens’ Justice with attribution for analysis and possible adoption of the appropriate measures.”
For the professor of administrative law at UniRio and the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Emerson Affonso da Costa Moura, the officials involved in the complaint committed a crime of embezzlement, while the mayor Marcelo Crivella, the person responsible or even the lack administrative.
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– In the first place, it is understood that the public servants committed the crime of fraud. This is clear because the political-partisan activity of a public servant is prohibited. The public official also has a legal duty to publicize his actions. They act against the law. The events are public and people have the right to access information, as determined by the Access to Information Law – explains Moura.
According to the professor, the statute of the municipal official says that whoever performs functions or activities that are not linked to the public interest or activity for which he has made a public tender, also commits a crime of administrative impropriety.
– If the mayor knew, even if he did not order, he omitted. He is also practicing the crime of responsibility, because he is not allowing the exercise of the political, individual and social rights of the people, as provided in the Organic Law of Rio. If he did not know and did nothing, the mayor also committed a crime of administrative impropriety for his omissionate conduct – evaluate.
The councilors will ask for CPI and opening of the impeachment process of the mayor
After announcing the existence of a group paid to defend the mayor and avoid criticism at the doors of hospitals, the PSOL bench in the Chamber will formalize the request for impeachment of mayor Marcelo Crivella. The request will also be signed by the party leadership and state deputy Renata Souza, who is a candidate for mayor. Councilwoman Teresa Bergher (Citizenship) will submit a request to the City Council to establish a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the work of city officials.
The PSOL bench considers that Crivella committed a crime of responsibility for conduct incompatible with the position. The crime is provided for in the fourth article of Decree Law 201 of 1967 that regulates the prosecution of mayors.
– In the midst of a pandemic, there are very serious complaints that Mayor Marcelo Crivella is organizing and actively participating in a mobilization to prevent the population from denouncing the scrapping of health care. The fact is very serious in all its angles: it implies the use of public money for shady purposes, it prevents the free exercise of the press, and silences the legitimate complaints of the population at a time of serious health crisis – says Councilor Tarcísio Motta, PSOL leader in the Chamber
For GLOBO, Teresa compared the group’s performance to a “militia” and that it will also ask for the resignation of Marcos Paulo de Oliveira Luciano, hired since 2017, to act as mayor. He, who can be seen in photos with Crivella, earns a salary of about R $ 10,000.
– It’s a surreal situation. The town hall has saucers in hand. While the mayor pays more than three thousand reais for jagunços to threaten journalists and shame patients who seek care in the municipal hospitals. The officer behind the militia wants to be exonerated immediately, along with the entire group. The mayor should spend this money on health professionals. A shame – said the councilor.
Wanted to comment on the councilman’s request, the municipality said it would not comment.
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At the door of the Rocha Faria Hospital, in Campo Grande, on August 20, Mrs. Vânia complained about the lack of a place to transfer her mother, who has cancer, to specialized care. Screaming, two men interrupt the interview, which must be interrupted. A routine of similar cases to avoid criticism and reports on the chaos in Rio’s health, aggravated by the new coronavirus pandemic, caught the attention of Rede Globo’s “RJ TV”.
Reporters found that the group has a name, Guardianes de la Crivella, obeys a rigid scale of service and, worst of all, earns a salary paid with public money – around R $ 4 thousand – just to create confusion at the entrance health units and make denials of municipal public service unviable.
A whistleblower revealed how the plan to protect Mayor Marcelo Crivella works. Guardians are controlled via WhatsApp, which is used to connect everyone involved in the role. Very early, they go to the doors of the hospitals and, to show that they are prepared, they do selfies on the site, which are sent to the mobile application pool. There they are charged for the service, when it is done wrong, or they are praised when the commotion it causes is so great that it prevents the action of journalists, complaints from relatives of hospitalized people or the patients themselves. Images obtained on television show that, among the members of the WhatsApp group, there is a telephone number assigned to Crivella himself. According to the complainant, “the mayor accompanies the complaints in the group and sometimes writes there: ‘Congratulations! That’s! ‘”, Said.
To carry out verbal attacks and defend the health policy of, almost always yelling, Luiz Carlos Joaquim da Silva, known as Dentinho, was hired in December 2019 with a gross salary of R $ 4,195, in a special position. It was he who interrupted the interview that Mrs. Vânia gave him.
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Yesterday, the reporting team went to the door of the Salgado Filho Hospital, in Méier, where, already knowing about the existence of the Crivella Guardians, they began to prepare to interview a man who had lost a finger. This time, José Robério Vicente Adeliano is on hold, earning a gross salary of R $ 3,229. He leaves the patient, who had just been treated, but complained about another unit, in Rocha Miranda, where he passed and could not be treated by the doctors. The tutor interrupts the interview and approaches the patient, who is outraged. The dialogue is surreal.
“The mayor is doing well”
José Robério begins: “Say no, compadre.” The patient responds by showing his hand with a large bandage: “How? Did I lose a finger and can’t speak? “José Robério insists:” Don’t say that, brother. “The reporter should interfere.” Can you let me talk about health? “He asks. To which the tutor responds:” It’s going very well, dear. “The mayor is working. well and well. ”At this moment, he is confronted by the journalist who identifies him, says that he knows about the work of the guards and how much he earns for covering up complaints.
In addition to the Crivella Guardians, two other groups join this team. One of them identified as GBP Special Adviser, which would be a reference to the mayor’s office, and another, as a guard. In them there are members who intimidated the informant teams. Ricardo Barbosa de Miranda was hired by the city in June 2018, as an assistant 3 and a salary of R $ 3,422. On the 27th, the date on which the attacks occurred in Rocha Faria, in addition to Dentinho, Marcelo Dias Ferreira was on the scale who, since September 2018, has a special position with a gross salary of R $ 2,788.
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An important character emerges when one of the approaches does not seem to have gone as expected. Guardians are late for a mission. The one who appears complaining about the team’s performance is Marcos Paulo de Oliveira Luciano, hired since 2017, to work in the mayor’s office. He, who can be seen in photos with Crivella, earns a salary of about R $ 10,000.
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The president of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), Paulo Jerónimo, by note, criticized what he described as an attack on democracy. “In orchestrated actions, city officials attempt to intimidate, with verbal attacks and threats of physical assault, journalists working on reports on the calamity of Rio’s public hospitals. The threats extend to users who testify about poor care. The episodes that have occurred at the doors of several municipal hospitals in recent days show that we are not facing isolated events, but rather a policy of the mayor to constrain journalists and citizens. The president of the National Association of Newspapers (ANJ), Marcelo Rech, described as “absurd” the spending of public money to undermine the free right of citizens to express themselves and be duly informed by the press. Rech calls for a rigorous investigation.
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He asked, the city did not deny the existence of Guardians of the Crivella and only said that it reinforced the assistance in the health units to improve the information provided to the population. He cited as an example the occasion when it was reported that the Albert Schweitzer Hospital had been closed when, according to the municipality, it never happened.
Read the city council note in its entirety:
“The City Council of Rio reinforced the assistance in the municipal health units in order to better inform the population and avoid risks to public health, such as, for example, when a part of the press reported that a hospital (in this case , Albert Schweitzer) was closed, but the unit was open to serve those in need. The City Council points out that false information can lead people in need not to seek treatment where it is offered, generating health risks ”. Links
