Police rule out involvement of the Crime Office in Marielle's death.
“Initially, the Crime Office was our first line of investigation. Through a more in-depth investigation, we discovered that the group did not participate in Marielle's murder,” said the head of the Homicide Division of the Capital (DHC) in Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Rosa.
247 - The head of the Homicide Division of the Capital (DHC) in Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Rosa, ruled out the involvement of the so-called "Crime Office" in the assassination of councilwoman Marielle Franco (PSOL) and her driver Anderson Gomes. The Crime Office militia was the target of a... Operação launched this Tuesday (30) by the Civil Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office.
“Initially, the Crime Office was our first line of investigation. Through a more in-depth investigation, we discovered that the group did not participate in Marielle's murder. Besides having evidence that Ronnie Lessa executed Marielle, moments before her death, Mad's (Leonardo Gouvêa da Silva) group murdered another victim, Marcelo Diotti. Because of this conflict in timing, we saw that the group could not be responsible for killing her,” Rosa said, according to a newspaper report. The Globe.
According to the police chief, “Ronnie Lessa was the one who killed Marielle. Although he had ties to the Escritório do Crime (Office of Crime), we never had concrete evidence that he was a member of the criminal group. The Escritório do Crime is a real group of hitmen. A very dangerous group hired by other criminal organizations to kill their rivals.”