«The clash between the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defense team must be decided by the popular court,» said Judge Gustavo Gomes Kalil, who did not set a date for the trial.
Marielle and her driver Anderson Gomes were murdered in March 2018. For that crime, Lessa and Vieira de Queiroz have been in the maximum security federal prison in Porto Velho, in Rondonia, for a year.
On the other hand, Anielle Franco, sister of late councilor Marielle Franco, admitted that she did not expect justice to decide before March 14 and those accused of killing her sister go to the popular jury.
The councilwoman, an activist in favor of sexual minorities and police violence allegations in favelas, and her driver were shot on March 14, 2018 on a street in downtown Rio.
Franco returned home after participating in a debate with young black women, when her car was shot: she received four shots to the head and the driver was shot three times in the back.
Almost two years after the murder, there are only two suspects arrested and some details of the investigation are known, but the main question -who ordered the murder?- remains unanswered.
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