Evandro case: Paraná government apologizes to Beatriz Abagge for torture sessions.
The request was made on January 4th in a document signed by the state secretary of Justice, Labor and Family, Ney Leprevost.
Metropolises - Thirty years after the death of young Evandro Ramos Caetano in Guaratuba, on the coast of Paraná, the state government issued a public apology to Beatriz Abagge, one of those convicted of the crime.
The request was made on January 4th in a document signed by the state secretary of Justice, Labor and Family, Ney Leprevost.
In her letter of apology, Leprevost emphasizes that the act will not annul the trial that convicted her, but that she repudiates any form of violence that may have been used to obtain a confession.
“I express my vehement repudiation of the use of the state apparatus for the practice of any type of violence, and in this particular case against human beings to obtain confessions, and in light of this, I ask, on behalf of the State of Paraná, for forgiveness for the inexcusable abuses committed in the past against the lady. This request for forgiveness is also symbolically extended to any and all other persons who may have ever suffered state torture in Paraná territory,” wrote the secretary.
Leprevost adds that the parents of all the children who disappeared in the early 199s will receive similar requests.
"A fervent apology will be sent to the parents of the missing boys. Because, at the time of the events, the group of questionable legality appointed by the State of Paraná to uncover who committed the horrific and cowardly crimes against these children, not only failed to do so but also caused a series of damages," he promised.
In December, the defense team for Beatriz Abagge and other convicts filed a request for a criminal review of their convictions for the child's death.
The document presents an opinion that, according to the defense, attests to the veracity of the recordings that indicate torture of the then-suspects to force them to confess to the crime. The lawyers argue that during the trials in which the three were convicted, the recordings of the confessions were edited.
The case
In 1992, the disappearance and death of a six-year-old boy, Evandro Ramos Caetano, in Guaratuba, a small coastal town in Paraná state, shocked the country.
Not only because of the brutality with which he was murdered, but also because of the political and judicial repercussions.
In July of that year, seven people were arrested and confessed to using the boy in a macabre ritual. But the case was far from closed – just as the guilt of those people was far from being properly clarified.
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