Police ask the justice to arrest the suspect who was driving a car that hit and killed a cyclist in SP | Saint Paul

According to research, Jose Maria da Costa Junior (see photo above) he is the driver of the Hyundai Tucson that arrived at Marina, the cyclist who pedaled down Avenida Paulo VI, in the Sumaré region. A motorcyclist, who was at the scene and saw the accident, followed the vehicle and noted its license plate.

With this information, the Police located in the early hours of Tuesday the car that hit Marina. It was inside a parking lot in the center of the city. The front windshield was broken by the impact with the cyclist at the time of the impact.

According to the employees of the establishment, the owner of the car is José María, who lives in a neighboring building. The police even went to the apartment he was renting, but the property was abandoned. A portion of marijuana was seized at the scene.

The agents also searched another property where José could be, this one in Inconfidentes, in the city of Minas Gerais, but they did not find him. The case is being investigated by the 14th Police District (DP), in Pinheiros, as ‘homicide (without intention to kill) in the direction of a motor vehicle and escape from the scene of the accident’.

The Hyundai Tucson was taken to the police station in the early hours of Tuesday (10). The vehicle was in the name of another man, who claimed the car was sold in 2017, information confirmed by investigations. The license plate is also Unconfident (MG).

Due to the electoral law, voters cannot be arrested five days before the elections, which take place this Sunday (15). If Justice decrees the arrest of the driver who hit the cyclist, the arrest can only occur until midnight this Tuesday. Then, the electoral period begins at dawn on Wednesday (11). Up to two days after the elections, the police can only make arrests on the spot.

The lawyers have called the police station and can introduce the driver. None provided a representation of the suspect, however, confirming that he is defending José María. In any case, the police ask anyone with information about his whereabouts to call 181 Hotline. You do not need to identify yourself.

Pretrial detention is one in which the suspect is detained until he is tried for a crime. In its request to Justice, the 14th DP argued that the arrest of José María is necessary for the investigation because he has remained a fugitive since he hit and killed Marina.

“Arresting this guy who did this is expected. That’s what the law says. The police have to arrest this guy and this guy has to go to trial,” Marina’s husband said. Felipe Burato, The report. “But for us, this will not bring Marina back. It will not justify her fight, it will not be worth her fight. For us, what her fight is worth is that this [atropelamento com morte] don’t happen to anyone else. “

“But people are dying and they don’t have the visibility that Marina is having. The bicycle for us, now and more, is a political act ”, said Felipe.

The military police Mariana de Morais Braga He was off duty at the coup and said what he saw on Sunday.

“The [o motorista] never stopped. And even after impact, it ran away. She [Marina] He was without a helmet, without reflective clothing, but the road was well lit. Probably, I could certainly see it, “said PM Mariana.

Marina’s parents recalled their daughter’s activist side in the fight for the safe use of bicycles as an alternative to urban transport.

“Her means of transportation was the bicycle. It made no sense for her to use the bus, to use a car, even in the rain,” he said. Paulo Garreta Harkot, father of a cyclist.

“My concern was always, as a mother, to say: ‘daughter, but look, the bicycle is fragile, she is vulnerable’. And she, somehow, has always resisted that, believing that the bicycle, being there as a means of transportation, was going to be respected by the cars because it is an educational process, ”he said. Mary Claudia Kohler, Marina’s mother.

Activists and colleagues honored Marina on Monday (9). They wrote sentences in the avenues Paulo VI, where the accident occurred, and Sumaré.

In addition to the phrases on the asphalt, the activists held a protest on Sunday (8) in various parts of the city demanding justice for the young woman and more safety in traffic.

The protesters cycled up to Avenida Pacaembu, where the young woman’s body was being watched by the family, and paid tribute to the young woman at the door, with many palms.

Excited, Marina’s relatives came out onto the balcony of the property and thanked them for their support. Marina’s mother cried and said the family is “totally devastated” by the tragedy.

“Marina is my first daughter, very dear, very determined, very idealistic. And we are totally shattered. She was building a house with her husband, a love, an afterlife. Studying, doing a PhD, engaged. Thanks for being here. and the fight really continues. ‘We are together’, people. Thank you very much, ”said the mother.

The Marine Corps was buried on Monday (9) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.

Marina’s outrage was witnessed by an off-duty military police circulating in the region. She wrote down the license plate and asked for help. The case is being investigated by the 14th Police District, in Pinheiros.

The speed of Avenida Paulo VI, where the accident occurred, is 50 km / h and has four lanes. The victim was in the last, near the parapet.

The young activist cyclist had the bicycle as his main means of transport and was an urban mobility researcher. She worked in the Municipal Council of Transportation and Traffic and was coordinator of Ciclocidade (Association of Urban Cyclists of São Paulo).

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