In Rio de Janeiro to follow the developments of the Moïse Kabagambe case, members of the Human Rights Commissions of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate asked for access to evidence of the case, including the video that shows in full the aggressions suffered by the Congolese.
Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE), president of the Senate Human Rights Commission, said before the meeting that the parliamentarians would demand information about this evidence. “The family, lawyers and councilor Tainá said that not everything that happened was clearly exposed to the press, especially the footage, in which they say there was some kind of editing. We can talk now to find out. Let’s hear from the family about it,” Costa explained.
The 24-year-old Congolese was killed at the end of last month in a beating, on the edge of Barra da Tijuca, in the west zone. Surveillance camera footage showed the action. However, the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) and the commissions ask for full disclosure of the video.
The eight parliamentarians met with family members of the Congolese on Monday morning (14). The meeting took place at the headquarters of the OAB. Right at the entrance of the first meeting of the delegation in Rio de Janeiro, the president of the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber, Carlos Veras (PT-PE), said that the focus of the group is to monitor and supervise the investigations and demand rigorous investigations.
“We cannot admit that, in Brazil, tragedies like this happen again, a massacre like this, such a barbaric crime. It is important that the two commissions can closely monitor and we need to leave here with referrals”, said Veras.
The meeting lasted around two hours and the parliamentarians once again defended the family’s right to have access to the complete footage, in which more than the three people arrested for the crime appear. In addition, they stated that the family must have security and ensured survival conditions.
In addition to meeting with family members of Moïse and the OAB, the group also has meetings with representatives of the State Government, City Hall, Public Ministry, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Congolese community.
The parliamentarians also want to verify the working conditions and eventual difficulties faced by refugee families in the inclusion in public policies. “I think it greatly reinforces the need for us to deepen measures and discussions on topics such as xenophobia. This is a foreigner, not just any foreigner, but from an African country, so she has a different treatment here. (…) It is clearly a crime with racist content. And also the issue of marginalization and criminalization of poverty. It was a poor man. Importantly, this has to be a reference for the struggles and debates that we have in parliament”, explained the senator.
This Monday (14), in the Official Gazette of the Municipality, the city hall established the Intersectoral Municipal Committee on Policies for the Care of Refugees, Immigrants and Stateless Persons in Rio de Janeiro, with the aim of better monitoring the issue of refugees.
Also on Monday, Moïse’s family and lawyer Rodrigo Mondego are due to meet with representatives of the Orla Rio consortium and the Municipal Department of Finance and Planning to discuss the concession of another kiosk, after the relatives had renounced the first offer for fear of retaliation. , since the owner said he would not give up the space.
On the offer, Senator Humberto Costa was against it. “Passing on to the family, as a form of compensation, the administration of the kiosk where the crime took place, in fact, no person in the sane court will assume such a thing. It is likely that the city hall must be considering another alternative. From the point of view of the OAB, we know if this family is well assisted from a legal point of view so that it has justice”, he concluded.
Source: CNN Brasil
