Court orders three indicted for the death of Congolese in Rio de Janeiro

The Justice of Rio de Janeiro decreed, this Wednesday (2), the arrest of the three indicted for the death of Congolese Moïse Kabamgabe.

The arrest was determined by Judge Isabel Teresa Pinto Coelho Diniz, from the capital’s judicial duty.

The decision determines the arrest of Aleson Cristiano de Oliveira Fonseca, the “Dezenove”; Brendon Alexander Luz da Silva, the “Totta”; and Fábio Pirineus da Silva, “Belo”, for their participation in the death of the Congolese, victim of a beating, on the 24th, at a kiosk in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone of Rio.

They were identified after the testimony of witnesses who witnessed the beating with sticks.

The criminals delivered at least 30 blows with wooden cables, most of them while the Congolese was on the ground, helpless. The victim was allegedly tied with a rope by one of the accused.

In the decision, the magistrate says that, according to the Public Ministry, the police investigations point to “criminal authorship” in the direction of the accused.

However, the decision states that it is necessary to carry out steps to elucidate the facts.

“However, there are still steps and investigative acts to be carried out in order to better elucidate the facts. Temporary detention is a kind of precautionary measure that aims to ensure the effectiveness of investigations to later enable the provision of just cause for the initiation of criminal proceedings. It is not a preventive detention, obeying different hypotheses, being a kind of precautionary detention even more restricted”, determines the judge in the decision.

THE CNN had access to all the images of the kiosk’s internal circuit and decided to show the excerpts that show the ambush of Moïse. Assaults will not be displayed.

The young man was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), in Africa, and left the country in 2014, as a teenager, to escape war and hunger.

According to family members, the young man worked for two days at the Tropicália kiosk, went to collect his payment and ended up being beaten by men who were there.