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A year and a half after the assassination of the city councilor, black, homosexual, and human rights activist, the investigation has still not identified the sponsor of the crime, while links with the family of the President are more and more ambiguous.
With our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Sarah Cozzolino
The Brazilians took to the streets Tuesday, November 5 in several major cities to seek justice in the case Marielle Franco . The portrait of the city councilor, black, homosexual and human rights activist is everywhere in front of the church of Candelaria. The t-shirts, flags and placards remind us that 600 days have passed without a response since his death.
" I think it's terrible ," rebels Janaina Ribeiro reacts. It is a reflection of what we are seeing today in Brazil. This crime against Marielle is the example of a chaotic state in which we can not move forward. "
" We will not leave them alone "
Despite the controversy over the appearance of the name of Jair Bolsonaro in the investigation, the link between the sons of the president and the two suspects arrested six months ago is proven. At age 20, Beatriz Vargas tries to follow this police serial. " They lie to us shamelessly. They lie in all areas. But we will not leave them alone until they answer this case, "she warns.
Protesters are also marching against authoritarianism. One of the president's sons recently raised the possibility of reinstating a provision that suspended constitutional freedoms during the 1968 dictatorship.
Lucia Valeria says she is anxious: " We do not understand how such a speech is not criminalized, she is indignant. We have lived under dictatorship and this kind of exaltation to dictatorship is a threat. And nothing is done. We live in a state that is not democratic. "
Eduardo Bolsonaro, also a federal MP, then apologized. The opposition is trying to sue him for his remarks.