BRASILIA (Reuters) – A supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) stabbed to death a supporter of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on Thursday, after a fight between the two motivated by political disagreements at a farm in the area. in the municipality of Confressa, in Mato Grosso, more than a thousand kilometers from the state capital, Cuiabá, according to the State Civil Police.
According to the police report, Rafael Silva de Oliveira, 24, killed his colleague Benedito Cardoso dos Santos, 42, with a knife on Thursday morning. The suspect was taken to the police station, where he confessed to the crime and was booked in flagrante delicto.
The Civil Police asked the Justice to convert the detention in flagrante to preventive detention, arguing that there is proof of the existence of the crime, evidence of authorship and the danger of letting the author go free. During the custody hearing, the Public Prosecutor’s Office also spoke out for preventive detention.
Judge Carlos Eduardo Pinheiro Bezerra de Menezes accepted the request. In the decision, Bezerra de Menezes reported that those involved were smoking cigarettes, started talking about politics, each defending their candidate. The discussion continued without reaching a common point, evolving into a physical fight until Rafael took the victim’s life “brutally”, according to the magistrate.
“Thus, analyzing the information elements added to the records, I note the occurrence of a very serious crime, in which a human life was taken. In addition, analyzing the fact in a preliminary way in a custody hearing, it appears that the crime would have occurred due to political-party differences”, highlighted the judge.
It is the second time this year that a Bolsonaro supporter has killed a Lula supporter, in yet another incident in a tense campaign punctuated by episodes of political violence. In July, in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, municipal guard and local PT leader Marcelo Arruda was shot dead by the Bolsonarista federal criminal police officer José Guaranho during his 50th birthday party, which had the former president as its theme. Before shooting, Guaranho arrived at the scene attacking Lula and the PT and with pro-Bolsonaro slogans, provoking an argument.
In another episode of tension, a Bolsonaro supporter had a head wound and said he had been attacked by PT militants who were waiting for Lula to arrive at an event with evangelicals in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, on Friday morning. .
The president’s supporter arrived at the scene in his car, with several stickers alluding to Bolsonaro and with attacks on Lula, and said that PT supporters attacked him. After an argument, he was removed from the scene by agents who were in charge of the event’s security. After the riot, a group of Bolsonarista militants arrived at the scene chanting slogans, but there were no incidents.
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito; Additional reporting by Pilar Olivares, in São Gonçalo, and Rodrigo Viga Gaier, in Rio de Janeiro; Edited by Eduardo Simões and Flávia Marreiro)
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