A witness testified that prison guard José Ribeiro Apostolo Júnior, 42, was persecuted after fans heard “catch a thief”, according to police. He was arrested in the act late Saturday afternoon (12), suspected of having shot and killed motorcycle courier Dante Luiz Oliveira, 40.
The episode of violence occurred in the region of the Allianz Parque stadium, in Pompeia, west of São Paulo, after the defeat of the São Paulo team to Chelsea, in the final of the Club World Cup.
The statement was made in a statement given on Monday (14) by a fan, who was shot in the hand.
According to delegate César Saad, head of the Police Station for Repression and Analysis of Sports Intolerance Crimes, it is possible, according to the images, to see this witness next to Oliveira. The fan stated in the statement, according to the policeman, that he did not see the beginning of the confusion, but that the two ran after Apostle Júnior when they heard screams of “catch a thief”. There was a lot of rush at that time.
At the scene, fans said there was a suspicion that a cell phone had been stolen.
The suspect in the killing of Oliveira stated in a statement that he was persecuted and that his cell phone was also stolen.
“He [testemunha] states that he noticed that Apostle had a pistol in his hand. Then he heard a noise and saw Dante falling to the ground,” said the deputy.
According to the police officer, the witness claimed to have had a bloody hand, but it was not until the following day that he went to the hospital and learned that he had also been shot.
On Monday, the delegate said that the police will carry out the ballistic confrontation of the projectile that hit the victim’s hand with the prison officer’s weapon, a 380 pistol, for the suspect’s personal use.
In testimony on Sunday (13) to judge Renato Augusto Pereira Maia, during a custody hearing, Apostle Júnior said that he was “assaulted by agents of the organized supporters [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.
On Saturday night, delegate Maurício Freire stated that the prisoner said he was confronted by fans who doubted he was from Palmeiras, was chased, ran and, in desperation, fired the gun.
Wanted to talk about the testimony of a new witness, Renan de Lima Claro, one of the defendant’s four defenders, did not respond until the publication of this report. On Monday (14), he stated that his client “is completely available to collaborate with the investigation”.
On Sunday (13), Claro said 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,” he said, citing that military police officers who attended the incident said that they observed a cornered individual, being attacked with punches, bottles 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.
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