In the early hours of Friday (9), Ednardo dos Santos Lima was sentenced to 790 years and 4 months in prison For direct involvement in the slaughter of Cajazeiras, which left 14 dead and 15 injured in the Cajazeiras neighborhood, in Fortaleza, in 2018.
The sentence was announced after a trial lasted about 15 hours, held at the Clovis Beviláqua Forum of the Court of Ceará. The popular jury, consisting of seven people, welcomed the allegations of the Ceará Public Prosecution Service.
In the complaint, the defendant appears as one of the leaders of State Guardians of the State (GDE) And it would have been one of the principals of the crime. The slaughter would have been motivated by a dispute with the Rival Comando Red group for controlling drug trafficking in the region.
Ednardo Lima was considered guilty for 14 homicides, 15 attempted murder, one of them against a child, and by participation in a criminal organization.
The penalty must be served in a closed and immediate basis, as determined by Judge Antonio Josimar Almeida Alves, holder of the 2nd Jury Court of Fortaleza and responsible for presiding over the session.
The slaughter took place at dawn on January 27, 2018, during a party at “Forró do Gago”. Armed men arrived at the scene shooting indiscriminately. The attack, which lasted a few minutes, resulted in one of the largest tragedies ever recorded in Ceará and caused national commotion.
According to the prosecutor, most victims had no involvement with organized crime. Investigations pointed out that the authors acted in a coordinated and premeditated manner using large -caliber weapons to reach as many people as possible.
Ceará court considers the case of high complexity, both by the number of victims and the number of defendants involved. In all, 15 people were reported. Eight of them were pronounced and must be subjected to a popular jury.
The process already accumulates more than six thousand pages, dozens of funds and an extensive amount of evidence and testimonials.
The expectation of the Court of Ceará is that, as the appeals are tried, new trials are scheduled for the other accused.
This content was originally published in man is sentenced to 790 years in prison by slaughter in Fortaleza on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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