The speed of the City of Rio de Janeiro in granting, to the family of Moïse Kabagambe, the operation of two kiosks on the beach of Barra da Tijuca was astonishing.
After all, who doesn’t want to have a kiosk on the beach? It’s that low-ambition dream that a lot of people have – I’ve had it! – at some point in their lives. Sell some coconuts, fry some fish, talk to everyone, then close for ten minutes for a tibum in the sea, do more social and still have a beer in the late afternoon.
With flip-flops, shorts and a t-shirt with holes, no stress. life. Huh?
It depends on whether your notion of the good life is working in the exact place where your son was slaughtered, as promised to be the future routine of Congolese Ivana Lay.
Let’s back off a little further. Did Ivana, did Moise’s other relatives ever dream of having this kind of business? Did they want to? Would they know how to manage a kiosk? Do they have the talent for it?
Stunned by the tragedy and dazzled by the spotlight, the deceased’s relatives accepted the offer of Mayor Eduardo Paes (PSD), which provided for a complete structure and rent exemption until 2030. There was no denying it. They put the Congolese in a pool.
Then, realizing the size of the trap, they turned back. In which they did very well.
A business to ring is not a winning ticket. It’s something that turns into a curse when you look away for a moment. Everything can go wrong. It usually does.
Back in the specific context of Moïse’s relatives, they would find a landscape more hostile than the rapids of the Congo River.
The physical persons of the boy’s killers will no longer be on the sidewalk in Barra. Expected. But there is nothing to suggest that the immigrants would be welcomed with flowers by the fauna of that ecosystem.
Just check the behavior of police officers and municipal guards on the night of the crime. Not only did they take the blatant assailants very lightly, they also allowed kiosks to sell drinks, with the corpse warm on the floor, for three hours after the massacre.
And there were those who bought it!
It’s just beginning to untangle the thread that possibly connects the militias of the west of Rio de Janeiro to the green coconut and sugared mate trade on the edge of Barra. Even Gilmar Mendes sees that there’s something.
The speed of the offer and the generosity of the terms feed a tick behind the ear regarding Paes’ real intentions. That he is the king of self-promotion, everyone knows. Looks like there’s something else.
It gives the impression that the mayor came forward with a positive agenda to stifle the alleged scandal that is supposed to come when the alleged scheme of the supposed kiosks is rummaged through.
It is unwise to charge the state for reparations for common crimes committed by random people. Was it really the case with Moise’s death?
Or is it that, in a delusional hypothesis, he died because he disturbed the functioning of a partnership between militiamen and public agents? I’m not even saying that he actually threatened the operation, just that he drank and it was boring.
Gangsters don’t need a strong motive to kill.
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