By: Aporrea /Sputnik News /La Radio del Sur /Marea Socialista
March 15, 2018 - Tens of thousands of people overflooded the streets of Rio de Janeiro this Thursday to repudiate the assassination of Marielle Franco, Rio councilor and well-known human rights activist who had strongly denounced the military intervention in her city.
"Something about each one of us died with this murder. She was the voice of many invisible people. She gave voice to those who had no voice," the volunteer of the NGO Rio de Paz, Alex Possati, told Sputnik.
On the steps of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Possati was one of the thousands of Cariocas who were shouting for justice for this crime.
Franco, 38 years old and councilor for the leftist Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), became a symbol of the struggle of women, blacks, inhabitants of slums and favelas (crowded neighborhoods) and the LGTBI population.
Her work was especially in the spotlight: For having criticized the abuses committed by the Military Police and the denunciations against the recent military intervention in Rio de Janeiro.
Franco was killed with five shots to the head when she was traveling on a vehicle from a political event in the center of the city.
The driver of the car, Anderson Pedro Gomes, also died immediately.
"It is clear that they have executed her. They thought that killing Marielle would kill her voice, but her ideas are here,: They are more alive than ever," Malcon Ozorio said, a young neighbor from a favela for whom the councilor was "a brave black woman who I dared to say what many people kept quiet. "
At the start of the march, her PSOL colleagues, visibly moved, promised to fight for keeping her legacy alive and to make justice. They described her assassination as a "Terrorist attack" and "A political murder".
In addition to quotes in memory of Marielle Franco and Anderson Pedro Gomes, the protesters chanted slogans against the Military Police and the federal intervention in the state, that put the Armed Forces in the control of the public safety in Rio de Janeiro.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, decreed three days of official mourning.
But this city is not the only one that demonstrated against the death of Franco; There were marches in the main cities of the country, and mobilizations are expected to continue in the coming days.
Solidarity in Venezuela
In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Social movements such as Feminist African Descendant Group Cimarronas de la Esperanza and Marea Socialist, as well as the Bolivarian Government and its people condemned the assassination of the socialist leader.
"Marielle is and she will continue to be a militant voice in favor of the right of the ones excluded, and against the repression and violence the Brazilian people are being victims (...) In the words of our highest chantor Alí Primera, we say: Those who die for life cannot be called death. Marielle Franco, Present!", the official statement by the Bolivarian Government says.
English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine
Email: acerocolomine@gmail.com
Twitter: @Andesenfrungen
Blog: http://fantasiasneurastenicas.blogspot.com
Video source: Fato's Brazil
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