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Retired public defender suspected of committing racial slur misses new testimony

The Civil Police of the Itaipu Police Station in Niterói, Rio’s metropolitan region, summoned the retired defender for the second time to testify this Tuesday (10) at 11 am. Until early afternoon she had not appeared at the police station, which is about 1 kilometer away from the condominium where the alleged racial slur took place.

This is not the first time the retired public defender has failed to attend. Last Thursday she was expected but did not show up. She claimed appointments and that she would come the following week.

THE CNN , the delegate responsible for the Carlos César Santos case, said that if the accused does not appear by the end of the day, a new subpoena scheduled for next Friday will be made. If she does not attend, the delegate must finalize the report early next week.

The police have already heard the testimony of two witnesses and analyzed the videos from the security cameras of the condominium, in addition to the video made by one of the delivery men.

“The images speak for themselves. Now, I want to hear what she (the accused) has to say”, comments the delegate. That added that the penalty for racial slur can be from one to three years in prison.

The retiree has at least 6 records. In 2001 for bodily harm and embarrassment. 2013: injury, bodily harm and injury. 2014: injury, injury. 2017: injury.

The video made by one of the delivery men went viral on social media. In it, the retired public defender calls one of the men a “monkey” after asking him to remove the delivery van for products purchased over the internet from her garage.

According to the victims, the delivery man informed that he would wait for the other employee as he did not have a driver’s license. Then the woman would have thrown soda cans at the two and the vehicle and called him a “monkey”.

The Public Defender’s Office of Rio de Janeiro reported that “it is absolutely against any form of discrimination”. THE CNN failed to contact the retired defender’s defense.

Source: CNN Brasil

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