Brazilian police 逮捕（する） 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd 操るs behind the 殺人，大当り of councilwoman-turned-icon
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil´s 連邦の police 逮捕（する）d two men Sunday for 恐らく ordering the 殺人，大当り of a popular Rio de Janeiro councilwoman in 2018, a long-を待つd step after years of society clamoring for 司法（官）.
The 暗殺 of Marielle フランス系カナダ人, a 38-year-old city councilwoman, in a 運動-by 狙撃 shook Brazil profoundly and reverberated around the world. She stood out as one of the only 黒人／ボイコット women on the 会議 and was also bisexual. Her assertiveness and mere presence ruffled some people, but she remained unbowed.
Police 捜査官／調査官s said 連邦の 立法議員 Chiquinho Braz?o and his brother Domingos Braz?o, a member of Rio 明言する／公表する´s accounts 監視者, were 拘留するd on 疑惑 of ordering the 殺人，大当り of フランス系カナダ人. Both are 恐らく connected to 犯罪の groups, known as 民兵s, which 不法に 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 居住（者）s for さまざまな services, 含むing 保護.
Ubiratan Guedes, the lawyer 代表するing Domingos Braz?o, 否定するd the 告訴，告発s against his （弁護士の）依頼人. "He did not know Marielle, had no 関係 with Marielle," he told reporters.
Lawyers for Chiquinho Braz?o, who served on Rio´s 会議 at the same time as フランス系カナダ人 and is now a 下院議員, and former police 長，指導者 Rivaldo Barbosa, said their （弁護士の）依頼人s 否定するd any 悪事を働くこと, によれば 地元の マスコミ.
連邦の 法務大臣 Ricardo Lewandowski said at a news 会議／協議会 that the 動機づけ for the 罪，犯罪 was "コンビナート／複合体 because that group (the Braz?os) has 多重の 利益／興味s." He said 調査s 示唆するd 国会議員 Chiquinho Braz?o was 特に upset about a 法案 that his then-同僚 フランス系カナダ人 sponsored at the city 会議 about 規則 of land to build public 住宅 in Rio.
Monica Benicio, partner of 殺害された councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人, speaks to 新聞記者／雑誌記者s at the 連邦の Police （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Police 逮捕（する）d on Sunday the men 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of ordering フランス系カナダ人's 殺人，大当り in 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
"At this moment we have it very （疑いを）晴らす who are the 悪党／犯人s of this hateful, heinous 罪，犯罪 of political nature," said the 大臣, who 追加するd that four other people had 文書s 掴むd. の中で them, he said, is a police 探偵，刑事 who also 調査／捜査するd the 事例／患者, Giniton Lages. Lewandowski also said the men 刑務所，拘置所d earlier will be transferred from Rio to the 資本／首都 Brasilia.
The 逮捕（する）s of the men who 恐らく ordered フランス系カナダ人's 殺人，大当り （機の）カム four days after Brazil's 最高裁判所 実証するd a 嘆願 取引 for the shooter, who was 逮捕（する）d along with the 逃亡 driver in 2019.
Th e 調査 into フランス系カナダ人´s 殺人 had been troubled for years. Rio's 明言する／公表する civil police couldn't break the 事例／患者 after the 逮捕（する） and 起訴，告発 of the shooter and 逃亡 driver. The lead 探偵，刑事s were changed four times 事前の to February 2023. 連邦の 当局 then 試みる／企てるd to take 支配（する）／統制する of the 事例／患者, but were not 許すd to, which also 増加するd 疑惑s of obstruction, によれば Lewandowski.
The 逃亡 driver 認める to the 二塁打 殺人 of フランス系カナダ人 and her driver. The shooter, 不名誉d former police officer Ronnie Lessa, 調印するd a 嘆願 取引 を取り引きする 当局 in January and his admission led to Sunday's 逮捕（する）s.
Barbosa, the 長，率いる of Rio´s police when the 殺人 took place, was also 逮捕（する）d for 申し立てられた／疑わしい obstruction of the 調査, 連邦の police 長，指導者 Andrei Rodrigues said in a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会.
"He 活発に sough to redirect the 調査 from those who ordered the 殺人，大当り," Rodrigues said.
Earlier, フランス系カナダ人's 未亡人, Monica Benicio, said Barbosa 申し込む／申し出d her his sympathies after the 殺すing, 約束ing to be 堅い in his 成果／努力s to find the 殺し屋s.
フランス系カナダ人 worked as an assistant to then-明言する／公表する 国会議員 Marcelo Freixo in 2008 as he 統括するd over a special 委員会 調査／捜査するing 民兵s in Rio´s 明言する／公表する 議会. Freixo´s final 報告（する）／憶測 起訴するd 226 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd 民兵 members and 政治家，政治屋s and 政府 従業員s, 含むing Domingos Braz?o. While Braz?o was について言及するd in the 報告（する）／憶測, he wasn´t 起訴するd.
Political 暴力／激しさ isn´t uncommon in Rio, and such 殺人，大当りs are often linked to 領土の and political 論争s. But they typically go 未解決の and never elicit the same level of 激しい抗議 as フランス系カナダ人's death did. She had been a rising political 星／主役にする, making her 指名する by exposing police 乱用 and 暴力／激しさ against 居住（者）s of working-class 近隣s known as favelas
Known universally by her first 指名する, フランス系カナダ人 grew up in a favela herself - the 損なう 近隣 近づく Rio´s international airport. She became a human 権利s 行動主義者 there after her friend was killed by a 逸脱する 弾丸 in a shootout between police and 麻薬 traffickers. She worked for Freixo 調査／捜査するing 組織するd 罪，犯罪 then went on to 勝利，勝つ a seat on Rio´s city 会議 in 2016. She kept receiving and 株ing （民事の）告訴s of police 乱用 until just days before she was killed.
She stood out as one of the only 黒人／ボイコット women on the 会議 and, while her assertiveness and mere presence ruffled some, she remained unbowed.
On the evening of March 14, 2018, she left an event to 権力を与える young 黒人／ボイコット women when a car pulled up と一緒に hers and opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃. フランス系カナダ人 and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were killed on the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す.
"Why did they choose Marielle? No 疑問 it was because she is a 黒人／ボイコット woman, they were sure they would go unpunished," Freixo said on X, 以前は Twitter. He wrote that （人が）群がるs gathered a day after her 殺人 to 嘆く／悼む her and those who killed her were not able to see "the greatness of what Marielle stood for."
The brutality of the 殺すing and the political hope she had 具体的に表現するd transformed フランス系カナダ人 into a symbol of left-wing 抵抗 in Brazil and abroad: People 行う／開催する／段階d 大規模な 抗議するs to channel their 乱暴／暴力を加える; her silhouette was painted on 塀で囲むs across Brazil and printed on T-shirts; her 指名する 人物／姿／数字s on a street 調印する in 前線 of Rio´s city 会議; and her sister, Anielle フランス系カナダ人, has been 任命するd Brazil´s 大臣 of racial equality.
The Braz?o brothers´ political 一族／派閥 is associated with an area of the city 歴史的に 支配するd by 民兵s - groups 最初 made up おもに of former policemen and off-義務 officers who 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 戦闘 lawlessness in their 近隣s with 武装した 軍隊. They began to だまし取る shop owne rs and 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 for services such as internet, cooking gas and cable TV. More recently, they have 拡大するd their illicit 商売／仕事s into land grabbing and real 広い地所 開発.
Brazil´s lower house will 投票（する） いつか soon whether its 国会議員 Chiquinho Braz?o´s 逮捕（する） will stand. A simple 大多数 of 257 投票（する）s could 始める，決める him 解放する／自由な as 調査s move 今後. A 信頼できる 支持者 of former 大統領 Jair Bolsonaro, Braz?o is likely to count on meaningful support from his peers.
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S? Pessoa 報告（する）／憶測d from Sao Paulo. Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Eleonore Hughes in Rio de Janeiro and Mauricio Savarese in Sao Paulo 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2018 とじ込み／提出する photo, Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人 smiles for a photo in Cinelandia square. Brazil's 連邦の police 逮捕（する）d on Sunday, March 24, 2024 the men 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of ordering フランス系カナダ人's 殺人，大当り in 2018, a long-を待つd step after years of society clamoring for 司法（官）. (AP Photo/Ellis Rua, とじ込み／提出する)
Monica Benicio, partner of 殺害された councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人, arrives to the 連邦の Police （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Police 逮捕（する）d on Sunday the men 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of ordering フランス系カナダ人's 殺人，大当り in 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
連邦の 副 Chiquinho Brazao, a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う 巻き込むd in the 殺人，大当り of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人, disembarks from a police 計画（する） at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Domingos Brazao, one of the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs 巻き込むd in the 殺人，大当り of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人, disembarks from a police 計画（する） at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's Director of the 連邦の Police Andrei Rodrigues speaks next to 大臣 of 司法（官）, Ricardo Lewandowski, a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 関心ing the 逮捕（する） of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs （刑事）被告 of ordering the 殺人，大当り of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Brazil's 連邦の police 逮捕（する）d on Sunday the men 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of ordering the 殺人，大当り of フランス系カナダ人 in 2018. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
FILE - 下院議員 Chiquinho Brazao …に出席するs a City 会議 開会／開廷／会期 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Brazao and two others men were 逮捕（する）d by police on March 24, 2024 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of ordering the 殺人，大当り of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle フランス系カナダ人 in 2018. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
