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Judge Viviane Vieira do Amaral Arronenzi, 45, was the victim of feminicide at the hands of her ex-partner Paulo José Arronenzi, who stabbed the woman in front of her three young daughters in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, in the western area. of Rio, informed the Police in a note.
The man was immediately arrested at the scene and is in prison.
The homicide, whose images were widely disseminated on social networks, generated a stir in Brazil.
According to the authorities, the suspect had already been denounced on other occasions for sexist violence and the judge had a police escort granted by the Justice, but later dispensed the service.
In a statement, the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Justice deeply regretted the death of the judge.
For their part, the Association of Magistrates of Rio de Janeiro (AMAERJ) and the Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB) expressed in a joint note their “extreme regret” for the “cowardly murder” and assured that the crime will not go unpunished. .
“This crime will not go unpunished. Femicide is vehemently repudiated by Brazilian society. Brazil needs to move forward. What happened this Thursday in Barra da Tijuca is absolutely unacceptable,” said the president of AMAERJ, Felipe Gonçalves, in the note.
“Femicide is the portrait of a society still marked by gender violence. We need to combat this evil,” completed the president of AMB, Renata Gil.
In 2019, 1,326 women were victims of femicide in Brazil, according to the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook 2020, prepared for 14 years by the Brazilian Public Security Forum.
Only in the first six months of 2020, the South American giant registered 648 cases of feminicide, despite the restrictions implemented between March and June to stop the advance of the coronavirus in the country.
Likewise, in the deaths that were classified as intentional homicides but that were not considered as femicides, the murdered women totaled 1,861 between January and June, compared to 1,834 victims who lost their lives in the same period last year.
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