Accused of killing Marielle is arrested in Campo Grande and had a move to the interior of SP authorized by Moraes
The president of Sifuspesp (Union of Employees of the Prison System of São Paulo), Fábio Jabá, said that the two units of the Tremembé Penitentiary Complex, in the interior of São Paulo, are not prepared to receive former military police officer Ronnie Lessa, accused of killing the councilor Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes. According to the union leader, the transfer would put the safety of the site and Lessa at risk.
Imprisoned since March 2019, the former PM confessed to having killed Marielle in a plea bargain. He is in the federal prison of Campo Grande, in Mato Grosso do Sul.
On Friday (June 7, 2024), minister Alexandre de Moraes, from STF (Supreme Federal Court), authorized the transfer to Tremembé, in response to a request from the defense. Here’s the complete of the decision (PDF – 119 kB).
In the text, Moraes said that the benefits provided for in the plea bargain made by the former police officer “obviously depend on the effectiveness of the information provided, since it is a means of obtaining evidence, to be analyzed during the criminal procedural investigation.”. However, he highlighted that this “does not prevent the requested transfer from being provisionally carried out at this time”.
The minister then ordered the transfer of Lessa from Campo Grande to Tremembé, “the security rules of the prison establishment are observed, by monitoring the prisoner’s verbal or written communications with any person outside the penitentiary unit, including monitoring visits, until the ongoing procedural instruction has been concluded”.
The Tremembé Penitentiary Complex has two male units: the Tarcizo Leonce Pinheiro Cintra Penitentiary, called P1, and the Doutor José Augusto César Salgado Penitentiary, P2, also known as the “prison of the famous” for receiving public figures or those who have committed criminal crimes. great repercussion, like Robinho and Alexandre Nardoni.
P1 is a maximum security prison, but it is overcrowded. According to the SAP (Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration), the unit has capacity for 1,491 prisoners, but houses 2,171, 680 more than the limit. P2 can house up to 348 prisoners and has more than 50 vacant spaces.
Jabá told Folha de S.Paulo that P1 is dominated by the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) and that, if Lessa is transferred there, “he dies”, even if placed in a wing with reinforced security. “This will create instability in prison security.”, he added.
P2, on the other hand, “does not accept anyone from a criminal faction, it is a calm unit, easier to work with. It’s him [Lessa] is a militiaman”, stated Jabá, when defending that the former police officer be sent to the RDD (Differentiated Disciplinary Regime), a more rigorous system, aimed at criminals who pose a high risk to society.
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