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Reuters DIEGO VARA
More than 1,000 protesters attacked the “Carrefour” supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat a black man to death in the store.
The “Globo News” channel quoted local military police as saying that the killing, which sparked protests across Brazil, took place Thursday night when a store employee called security after the man threatened to attack her.
The G1 website later reported that a preliminary analysis by the state forensic institute indicated that the cause of death may have been suffocation.
The French branch of the French company “Carrefour” in Brazil expressed its deep regret for what it called this brutal death and said that it would terminate the contract with the security company and fire the employee in charge of the store at the time of the accident and I’d close the store out of respect.
In Porto Alegre, on Friday afternoon, protesters distributed posters with the slogan “Carrefour” stained with blood and called for a boycott of the chain. They raised a sign in Portuguese that read “Black lives matter” and signs demanding retribution for the victim.
The protest turned violent on Friday night, when protesters broke windows and delivery cars in the “Carrefour” parking lot. In Sao Paulo, dozens of protesters smashed the facades of the “Carrefour” store with stones, ripped open the entrance doors and broke into the building before dispersing them.
In Rio de Janeiro, about 200 protesters chanted slogans in front of another Carrefour store.
Source: “Reuters”
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