The Capital Homicide Police needs to find the name of the head of the Red Command who ordered the murder of four executors of the doctors killed in a kiosk in Barra da Tijuca, in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, to conclude the investigations into the case. This is expected to happen in the next few days.
In the early hours of October 5 last year, four orthopedists who were taking part in an international congress decided to meet on the seafront, right in front of the hotel where they were staying, for a get-together, when they were shot by criminals who came down, hooded, from a white vehicle.
Marcos de Andrade Corsato, aged 62, Perseu Ribeiro Almeida, aged 33, and Diego Ralf de Souza Bomfim, aged 35, brother of federal deputy Sâmia Bomfim (PSOL-SP) died instantly. Only Daniel Proença, 32, managed to survive the attack.
According to investigations, the crime happened by mistake. The bandits would have confused Perseus with the son of a militiaman, due to their physical similarity.
The execution ordered would be that of Taillon de Alcântara Pereira Barbosa, son of Dalmir Pereira Barbosa, one of the main leaders of the militia that operates in the west zone of the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The two were arrested in a Federal Police action.
One day after the attack on orthopedists, which put an even greater spotlight on violence in Rio de Janeiro, the Civil Police found two vehicles in the west zone with the bodies of four of the doctors' executors. One of them would be drug trafficker Philip Motta Pereira, known as Lesk, who would have migrated from the militia to Comando Vermelho after the drug trade entered. Investigators believe that he was the person who ordered the attack on the doctors.
During the six months of investigations, the Homicide Department also discovered that a fifth criminal involved in the case died about a month and a half later, during a robbery. All would have been murdered on orders of the criminal faction.
“The memory of opening my cell phone and seeing my brother’s photo never leaves my head. An absurd, impossible, unsustainable pain. Why? Executed… my brother? Six months later, we know nothing more about the case. Anything. No revelations, no clues, no proof… You must have seen it on TV the next day: case closed. For whom?” asked deputy Sâmia Bomfim, via social media. “Grief is a pain that never goes away, a hole that never closes. You live. Life goes on, but the loss, longing and pain continue,” she wrote.
Source: CNN Brasil
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