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An unarmed black motorcyclist was arrested on the spot for robbery after a soldier of the prime minister claimed to have approached him. The case occurred on the night of Friday (28), in Tremembé, north of São Paulo. The cop was off duty.
The motoboy family denies the theft and says they were attacked by the PM.
A video made by residents of the neighborhood shows the motorcyclist André Andrade Mezzette, 29, on the ground, dominated by the soldier Felipe da Silva Joaquim, 30, PM of Rocam (Ronda Ostensiva con Apoyo de Motociclistas), who is armed .
In the recording, the motoboy tells the prime minister that he was just smoking marijuana. The PM says “God knows what you’ve done” and, pointing a gun at the child’s head all the time, violently drags him from the street to the sidewalk, kicks him on the back and curses.
Family says PM arrived attacking and without identifying himself
Student Vitoria Mezzette, 21, sister of the motoboy, told the Twitter who decided to take a break after delivering a pizza and lit a marijuana cigarette. PM Felipe would have appeared at that time. Still, according to the motoboy’s sister, the prime minister did not identify himself as a police officer and began attacking. Mezzette cigarette butts and cursing him.
According to Vitória, the prime minister ignored that the young man was in charge of the orders and receipts of the deliveries that he had already made that night.
Motoboy André Andrade Mezzette received three points in the butt that he claims to have received
Image: Personal archive
The motorcycle messenger was taken to an emergency room and then to a hospital for a CT scan. Due to his injuries, he needed three stitches on his forehead. When he was discharged in the morning, he was transferred to 73 DP (Jaçanã), where he had already been booked on the spot for robbery.
Subsequently, Mezzette was transferred to the 72nd DP (Taipas Parade), where he will be held until tomorrow, when he must be transferred to a provisional detention center.
PM says motoboy announced assault
Soldier Felipe in turn told the PM and the Civil Police what was happening when he noticed the motorcyclist in a suspicious attitude. He claims that he turned around and that Mezzette went to the middle of the street and announced the robbery.
The off-duty soldier narrates in the police report that he got off the motorcycle, physically fought with the motorcyclist and the detainee until the arrival of the PM, who took him to the emergency room.
Family does not believe in the police version and protests
Family and friends of the motoboy André Mezzette protest in front of the 72 DP of the Capital, where he is imprisoned
Image: Personal archive
“What’s the point of this version? An unarmed man, who is on a motorcycle, trying to steal another motorcycle? Did the PM try to steal with the card machine?” of the corporation.
He claims that his brother is the victim of an armed act by the Military Police due to the lack of control of soldier Felipe. She believes that her brother’s version, who only testified after the flagrant was plowed by the Civil Police, received no police credit because he was arrested once for robbery in 2013.
The family points out that Mezzette is the owner of the motorcycle, he used to deliver and says he is innocent. Friends and relatives where the motoboy (30) works today went to the 72nd DP to protest and demand his release.
PM made a post citing ‘release’
SD Felipe’s Instagram post says he went through a “release” the day before (the day he arrested the messenger)
Image: Playback
HE Twitter He looked for soldier Felipe. He stated that everything in the police report registered in Jaçanã “is what happened.”
On the fact that Mezzette is unarmed, he said that “there is no need for a weapon to commit a robbery.” He accused the press of manipulating and publishing lies and says he is being threatened on the street where he lives for the case.
The policeman, who has 92,000 followers on Instagram as of Saturday night, posted yesterday (29) that he had been “released” the day before.
“Although we are doing the right thing in life, such as at work, we pass several tests, where they interrogate us about everything, just for wearing a uniform,” the policeman wrote in the publication.
When asked if the statement referred to the incident the day before, the policeman denied it. He said it was a “private matter.”
Ombudsman says that nothing justifies violence against the person surrendered
The Ombudsman of the Police, Elizeu Soares Lopes, had access to the video published Twitter in this history. He said that although the images do not show how the soldier Felipe arrived at the place and what motivated the approach, “nothing justifies the physical and verbal violence to the person already handed over, which must be strictly determined.”
According to Lopes, the “Office of the Ombudsman will officiate the Internal Affairs of the Military Police and the Judicial Police for more information and will follow up on the case until its conclusion.”
