Police investigate case of second shot in São Paulo after Palmeiras game

Civil Police are investigating whether a second person was shot on Saturday (12), during clashes between Palmeiras fans and military police. The violence occurred in the late afternoon, after the defeat of the São Paulo team to Chelsea, in the Club World Cup final, in the region of the Allianz Parque stadium, in Pompeia, west of São Paulo.

According to delegate César Saad, head of the Police Station for Repression and Analysis of Sports Intolerance Crimes, the police were informed that a man had been hospitalized because of a gunshot wound to the hand. And that he would have been hit in Saturday’s clashes in the Palmeiras stadium region.

During the acts of violence, motorcycle courier Dante Luiz Oliveira, 40, was shot in the chest. Prison officer José Ribeiro Apostolo Júnior, 42, suspected of having fired the shot, was arrested in the act.

“Let’s investigate [o suposto segundo baleado] to find out if the case is related to the prison guard,” said Saad.

According to the delegate, a Civil Police team would go to the hospital where the man who was shot in the hand was hospitalized to find out if it would be possible to take him to testify.

In addition to listening to the alleged new victim, the police will conduct a ballistic confrontation between the projectile that hit the victim’s hand with the prison officer’s weapon, a 380 pistol, for the suspect’s personal use.

Junior Apostle was even taken to give a new statement on Monday (14), but he was not heard. In the middle of the afternoon he was transferred to the Tremembé Penitentiary (147 km from SP), according to the Penitentiary Administration Department.

To Judge Renato Augusto Pereira Maia, during a custody hearing on Sunday (13), the suspect said that he was “assaulted by agents of the organized crowd [Mancha Verde]”, being kicked, including in the head and face, and who, when he fell, had his shirt torn, leaving the weapon exposed.

At that moment, he said, he realized that the gun was missing the charger, which had been stolen by someone, as well as the watch and cell phone.

“He claims that even so, he ran again with the gun in his hand, saw military police officers and decided to run towards them to help him, but he was reached by several individuals, cornered and attacked again”, says an excerpt from the judge’s decision, which decreed arrest. suspect’s preventive

From then on, the prison guard stated in a custody hearing that they tried to take the gun from his hand, and given the situation, he cannot say whether the shot fired was his action or that of the individuals who were trying to remove the pistol. “Only after the shooting did he manage to reach the police and surrender his weapon”, says the sequence of the excerpt.

Lawyer Renan de Lima Claro, one of the defendant’s four defenders, said on Monday that the team went to the police station to monitor the prison guard’s new hearing, which ended up not taking place. “He is completely available to collaborate with the investigation,” he said.

On Sunday, Claro stated that the defense filed habeas corpus to ensure his right to respond to the process in freedom.

“It turns out that he is a public security agent who, as such, has the legally recognized right to carry weapons,” said Claro, citing that military police officers who attended the incident said they observed a cornered individual, being beaten with punches, bottled and kicks and heard a pop.

“This individual managed to free himself and ran towards them, and his weapon had no ammunition and no magazine”, he said, regarding an excerpt from the incident report.

According to him, the police record confirms what his client said during interrogation, that he was robbed and assaulted by other fans, who stole his phone and the charger from his weapons.

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Another Palmeiras fan was killed on Saturday. Lawyer Celso Wanzo, 58, died in São José do Rio Preto (443 km from São Paulo), according to his family, after being attacked during an argument with the manager of the condominium where he lived, in the Jardim Pinheiros neighborhood.

According to Wanzo’s wife, architect Giani Senefonte, they were at home with friends watching Palmeiras play in the Club World Cup final when they heard cursing coming from the sidewalk.

Also according to Senefonte, the lawyer saw that he was the condominium manager and went down with a friend. As soon as he reached the sidewalk, the aggressor would have punched the lawyer, who would have fallen to the ground unconscious.

The suspect in the crime, financial manager Emerson Ricardo Fiamengui, 44, surrendered to the police on Sunday night, after the court ordered his preventive detention. Sought, the defense of the síndico did not respond until the publication of this report.