The trial of former Rio de Janeiro Military Police sergeants, Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz, resumed this Thursday morning (31). On Wednesday (30), the first day of the jury lasted more than 10 hours and heard nine witnesses and the two defendants.
Both are defendants in the murder of councilor Marielle Franco (PSOL) and driver Anderson Gomes, which occurred in 2018.
The second trial session began at around 9:30 in the morning at the 4th Jury Court of Rio de Janeiro. The expectation is that the sentence against the defendants will be handed down today. Follow the jury live :
The trial takes place more than six years after the attack, on March 14, 2018. Marielle was shot three times in the head and once in the neck and Anderson was shot at least three times in the back.
During the first day of the trial, in addition to defendants Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz, nine witnesses were heard, seven indicated by the state Public Prosecutor’s Office and two by Ronnie Lessa’s defense. Élcio Queiroz’s defense gave up hearing witnesses.
The defendants gave statements and attended the trial via videoconference from the prisons where they are held. Lessa is detained at the Tremembé Penitentiary Complex, in São Paulo, while Queiroz is at the Complexo da Papuda, a federal prison in Brasília.
This content was originally published in Watch: Marielle Case Trial resumes in Rio on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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