Marielle Franco

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Marielle Franco (2016)

Marielle Franco , actually Marielle Francisco da Silva (born on July 27, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro ; died on March 14, 2018 there ), was a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro. She was a member of the Brazilian Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) and president of the city parliament's women's committee.

Live and act

The Afro-Brazilian Franco came from the Favela Maré in Rio. At the age of 11 she began to earn money as a street vendor for her school fees. As a teenager she was part of the famous dance and music group Furação 2000 , from which many well-known artists such as Anitta would later emerge. After completing her school career, she was able to prepare for the university entrance exam in the Maré's first joint, free preparatory course. Franco passed this and received a scholarship to study social sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro . In 2014 she graduated fromUniversidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói started a postgraduate course in public administration with a thesis on the influence of the Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora on the perception of the favelas (title of the work: UPP - a redução da favela a três letras ).

Franco started campaigning regularly for human rights issues in Rio de Janeiro in 2000, when she lost a friend to a so-called bala perdida , a stray bullet, in a shootout between the police and a drug gang . In 2006 she joined the campaign team of PSOL MP Marcelo Freixo and after his election became his political advisor. In 2016 she ran for the first time as a candidate and was elected to the city parliament with 46,502 votes in the 2016 local elections. She was the person who won the fifth most votes in Brazil. Politically, she campaigned for the rights of the mostly black favela residents and especially favela residents throughout her life. She regularly denounced police violence during operations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiros and called for a different policy in dealing with poverty. She also stood for the liberalization of drug policy. Franco was known as a campaigner for the right to abortion. As a black, openly lesbian, feminist, anti-capitalist-oriented woman, mother and politician, she symbolized and represented a diversity that is rare in Brazilian politics. She was posthumously awarded the Diploma Bertha Lutz in 2019 .

assassination

On March 14, 2018, a few days after she became chair of a commission to investigate military interventions in Brazil, she and her driver were shot dead in her car. A Franco employee who was in the car was injured. Before her violent death, the politician spoke out against police violence and extrajudicial executions and openly criticized the federal intervention of Brazilian President Michel Temer in the state of Rio de Janeiro in February 2018, which led to the use of the army. Franco's assassination sparked protests in Brazil; Thousands of people rallied to speak out for justice and an end to violence in the country.

She was buried in Caju Cemetery on March 15, 2018 .

Investigation into her murder

The slow investigation remained a political issue even after her death.

The murder of Franco in October 2019 caused renewed political upheaval. The television station " Rede Globo " reported from the investigation files that one of the alleged perpetrators visited an accomplice a few hours before the murder who lived in the same residential complex as Jair Bolsonaro , who lived there Time was a Congressman and was elected President in October 2018. According to a porter, the alleged perpetrator first asked for Bolsonaro, but then went to another apartment in the complex.

The militia officer Adriano da Nóbrega , wanted by the police , was suspected of complicity. Adriano da Nóbrega was murdered on February 9, 2020 during a police action in the state of Bahia .

Web links

Commons : Marielle Franco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comissão da Mulher distribuiu 21 leques nos blocos. Retrieved March 15, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Da Maré, vereadora fazia parte do 'bonde de intelectuais da favela' Article in the Folha de S. Paulo in Portuguese of March 15, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Marielle Franco: UPP - a redução da favela a três letras. Uma análise da política de segurança pública do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 2014, accessed on March 16, 2018 (pdf; 2.5 MB; Portuguese).
  4. ^ Miguel Caballero: Da Maré, Marielle Franco chega à Câmara como a quinta mais votada. In: O Globo . October 4, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Marielle Franco . Eleições 2016, accessed March 15, 2018 (Portuguese).
  6. ^ Protests in Brazil: Queer black politician Marielle Franco murdered. An obituary. Obituary in Missy magazine on March 19, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ At least eight shots: human rights activist murdered in Rio. KNA article on faz.net , March 15, 2018, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Corinna Gall: The murder of a politician in Rio drives thousands onto the streets. In: NZZ.ch . March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Marielle Franco é enterrada sob forte comoção no Rio. Jornal do Commercio , March 15, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  10. ↑ Murder investigation: Brazil's President beside himself about suspicions. In: www.faz.net. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Suspeito da morte de Marielle se reuniu com outro acusado no condomínio de Bolsonaro antes do crime; ao entrar, alegou que ia para a casa do presidente, segundo porteiro. In: globo.com. G1, accessed November 14, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  12. ^ Boris Herrmann: Flávio Bolsonaro and the contract killer. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 4, 2019, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Dom Phillips: Hitman linked to Marielle Franco's murder killed by police. The Guardian, February 9, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Franco, Marielle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francisco da Silva, Marielle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian politician, councilor in Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2018
Place of death Rio de Janeiro