In 2005, Bolsonaro defended a former police officer who is now suspected of killing Marielle.

247 - In a 2005 session of the Chamber of Deputies, current President Jair Bolsonaro criticized, in a speech on the floor, the murder conviction of former military police officer Adriano Nóbrega, a fugitive accused of leading the Escritório do Crime (Office of Crime), the most lethal and dangerous militia in Rio de Janeiro. He is the target of Operation Os Intocáveis ​​(The Untouchables), launched this week, which arrested at least five men suspected of belonging to the militia that dominates criminal activities in Rio das Pedras, in the West Zone of Rio.

Adriano is also the prime suspect in the shooting of councilwoman Marielle Franco and He has already been honored. in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro by Flávio Bolsonaro.

In his speech during that session, then-federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro stated that Adriano was a "brilliant officer" and criticized a colonel who testified against the accused, reporting to the jury the results of an internal investigation by the Military Police, as revealed. report from Folha de S.Paulo.

"One of the most senior colonels in Rio de Janeiro appeared in uniform, alongside the Public Prosecutor's Office, and said whatever he wanted and didn't want against Lieutenant [Adriano], accusing him of everything possible, even forgetting the fact that he [Adriano] had always been a brilliant officer and, if I'm not mistaken, the top graduate of the Military Police Academy," Bolsonaro stated, according to records from the Chamber of Deputies.