The Attorney General of the State of Rio, Luciano Mattos, named the new members of the task force that will monitor the investigations into those who ordered the murders of councilor Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes.
The team will be composed by the prosecutors Eduardo Morais Martins, Paulo Rabha de Mattos, Patrícia Costa Santos, Glaucia Rodrigues Torres de Oliveira Mello, Pedro Eularino Teixeira Simão, Mario Jessen Lavareda and Tatiana Kaziris de Lima Augusto Pereira.
“The orientation of the head of the MP in Rio is to give priority to the case, which now has the assistance of the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Police”, says the note from the prosecution.
On the 22nd of February, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, informed that he had ordered the initiation of a new investigation by the Federal Police to expand collaboration with investigations into the murder of the councilor and Anderson Gomes, who was driving the vehicle she was in.
The crime completes five years on March 14 and there is still no conclusion on the perpetrators and motivations.
Investigations by the Civil Police and MPRJ pointed to retired sergeant expelled from the Rio de Janeiro Military Police (PMRJ) Ronnie Lessa as the author of the shots, with the collaboration of former military police officer Élcio Queiroz.
They have been pre-trial detained since 2019 and are responsible for triple-qualified double homicide (awkward reason, ambush and resource that made it difficult for the victim to defend themselves) and for the attempted murder of one of Marielle’s advisors, who was also in the vehicle and survived.
