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Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects link to murder case, threatens TV network's license
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 30, 2019 / 11:20 AM / UPDATED 30 MINUTES AGO
Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects link to murder case, threatens TV network's license
Anthony Boadle, Rodrigo Viga Gaier
5 MIN READ
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday deplored a TV network’s report linking him with a former police officer accused of assassinating a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman and threatened to cancel the broadcaster’s license.
TV Globo, Brazil’s largest TV network, reported on Tuesday that just hours before the March 2018 murder, the suspect was said to have told a doorman he was going to Bolsonaro’s house, gaining access to a gated community where he met instead with another former policeman accused of murdering the left-wing politician Marielle Franco.
The case led to widespread protests by Brazilians outraged to see a black, openly gay human rights advocate gunned down. Investigators arrested two former police officers Ronnie Lessa and Elcio de Queiroz nearly a year later and charged them with killing Franco in return for about $50,000. Their lawyers said they did not commit the crime.
Rio state prosecutors said later on Wednesday that the doorman had been mistaken. At a press conference, prosecutors said it was Lessa, who lived two doors down from Bolsonaro, who had answered the intercom and allowed Queiroz to enter.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects link to murder case, threatens TV network's license
Anthony Boadle, Rodrigo Viga Gaier
5 MIN READ
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday deplored a TV network’s report linking him with a former police officer accused of assassinating a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman and threatened to cancel the broadcaster’s license.
TV Globo, Brazil’s largest TV network, reported on Tuesday that just hours before the March 2018 murder, the suspect was said to have told a doorman he was going to Bolsonaro’s house, gaining access to a gated community where he met instead with another former policeman accused of murdering the left-wing politician Marielle Franco.
The case led to widespread protests by Brazilians outraged to see a black, openly gay human rights advocate gunned down. Investigators arrested two former police officers Ronnie Lessa and Elcio de Queiroz nearly a year later and charged them with killing Franco in return for about $50,000. Their lawyers said they did not commit the crime.
Rio state prosecutors said later on Wednesday that the doorman had been mistaken. At a press conference, prosecutors said it was Lessa, who lived two doors down from Bolsonaro, who had answered the intercom and allowed Queiroz to enter.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-threatens-to-cancel-license-of-network-linking-his-name-to-murder-case-idUSKBN1X91VW
