The Federal Highway Police (PRF) is investigating two other complaints against the police officers involved in the death of Genivaldo de Jesus, in Sergipe.
According to the administrative process, the cases took place two days before the tragic death of Genivaldo, a case that became known as the “gas chamber”, since he died after being locked in the trunk of a PRF car where gas bombs were thrown. tear gas and pepper spray.
The victims reported that they were approached in the same way, when riding a motorcycle along the track in Umbaúba (SE), without a helmet, and were approached and assaulted. A CNN the PRF reported that the complaint is included in the same administrative procedure that runs against the three police officers.
“The National Corregedoria, in Brasilia, monitors the work of the commission”.
The Secretary for Access to Justice of the Ministry of Justice, Marivaldo Pereira, who follows the Genivaldo case and negotiates compensation for the victim’s family, mediating between the parties, told the report that “it is essential that every crime committed by a public agent be investigated, especially when it puts people’s lives or physical integrity at risk”.
In a note, the defense representing one of the police officers involved in the case said that the server “has always provided relevant services to Brazilian society, being an exemplary public servant”.
“The facts under investigation will prove the constitutional presumption of innocence. Expertise, witnesses and the fullness of defense will not allow an innocent man to be convicted. The defense is attentive and will not let the defender’s constitutional guarantees be relaxed in order to appease the social outcry. If an innocent person was lost, that’s all the more reason not to lose three more innocent people to prison”, says the note signed by the lawyer Rawlinson Ferraz Filho.
remember the case
The case took place in May 2022 and became known as “the makeshift gas chamber”.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the victim died of asphyxiation after being placed in the prisoner compartment of the PRF vehicle, where the agents fired pepper spray and tear gas.
The first-degree judge decreed the preventive detention of the police officers “to guarantee public order, due to the seriousness of the fact and evidence of specific criminal reiteration”. This is because, according to the STJ, two of the three police officers involved in the case were indicted for a violent approach two days before Genivaldo’s death.
Source: CNN Brasil
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