Patricia Acioli

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Patricia Acioli

Patrícia Lourival Acioli (born February 14, 1964 in Brazil , † August 12, 2011 in Piratininga , Niterói District , Rio de Janeiro State , Brazil) was a Brazilian judge . She cracked down on organized crime and was murdered as a result. Although there are frequent attacks against members of the judiciary, it was the first murder of a judge in Brazilian history.

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Patrícia Acioli joined the legal service in 1992 and was initially responsible for criminal matters relating to children and young people . Since 1999 she worked in the 4th criminal chamber of the court in São Gonçalo , Niterói district, where she passed harsh sentences as a judge against drug dealers , criminal gangs and corrupt police officers. She had sentenced more than 60 police officers to long prison terms, most of them for murder.

On the morning of August 12, 2011, the judge was murdered in her car near Piratininga , a small town near Niterói in the state of Rio de Janeiro , by two masked men on motorcycles with 21 gunshots from police officers. Acioli had no police protection with her, despite receiving death threats several times. She was buried in Niterói.

Patrícia Acioli's assassination shook all of Brazil. The president of the highest court in Brazil described the act as an "attack on the Brazilian state and democracy". The court has ordered an investigation by the federal police. A month after the crime, three police officers were charged with the murder for which Acioli had signed an arrest warrant shortly before her death; they wanted to prevent the investigation against themselves. They were sentenced to long prison terms on January 30, 2013 (25 years, 25 years and 6 months and 22 years and 6 months imprisonment). The offense points to the high exposure of judges to organized crime in Brazil.

Acioli lived in Niterói. She had three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brazil judge Patricia Acioli shot dead in Niteroi. BBC News, August 13, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011 .
  2. ↑ AFP / cor: Anti-Mafia judge shot in ambush. Welt Online, August 13, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Juliana Barbassa: Brazil judge's murder points to vigilante power. In: The Guardian. September 16, 2011, accessed August 4, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Le Monde, AFP: Brésil: une juge qui combattait la mafia assassinée à Rio. Le Monde, August 12, 2011, accessed August 14, 2011 (French).
  5. ↑ Brazilian judge Patricia Acioli gunned down near Rio. The Telegraph, August 13, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Acusados ​​de terem articulado morte da juíza Patrícia Acioli serão transferidos para presídio no Rio. Daniel Benitez Lopes e Cláudio Oliveira estavam presos em Mato Grosso do Sul. In: R7 Notícias. July 5, 2013, accessed August 4, 2013 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Acioli, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acioli, Patrícia Lourival
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian judge
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Brazil
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2011
Place of death Piratininga , Niterói District , Rio de Janeiro State , Brazil