• The killing of Agatha Felix, 8 years old, shakes Brazil: "hit in the neck by the police"
  • "Stop killing us": protests in Brazil for Agatha Felix, the child murdered by the police

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September 23, 2019Rabies and protests in Rio de Janeiro after an eight-year-old girl died from a firearm coming, according to preliminary reports, from a policeman's weapon during a security operation.

Ágatha Vitória Sales Félix was with his mother in a pickup truck and was returning home when she was shot in the back on Friday in the favelas of Alemao. The police were chasing a motorcyclist and said he responded to the shots.

A version that Aghata's family denied, claiming that no firefights were underway. "A boy was on a motorbike and the police asked him to stop. He did not stop, he was unarmed, and the police fired," said the girl's uncle, Elias. From January to August, 1,249 people died in security raids in Rio.

Ágatha is the fifth child to die in a similar situation this year. According to criticism, Governor Wilson Witzel's hard line, which took office in January and was close to President Jair
Bolsonaro, is the basis of the growing number of victims in the favelas.

Yesterday hundreds of residents protested with posters with slogans like "The lives in the favelas are worth", "Enough to kill us". Even on social media, criticism and condemnations of the governor's strategy have gained ample space.



The military police "opened an investigation," the governor's office said. For their part, both Amnesty international and the local Ombudsman have emphasized the negative impact of the brutal hand desired by Governor Wilson Wtizel against the delinquents, also implemented at the cost of the loss of civilian lives.