Assassinated Marielle Franco: councilor, lesbian, black and feminist very critical of violence in Brazil

GAYLES.TV.- «How many more have to die for this war to end?«. These words he tweeted Marielle Franco a day before being murdered. The fifth most voted councilwoman of Rio de Janeiro Brazil) She was shot in the middle of the street when a vehicle was placed next to her car and she fired nine bullets. In the attack he died too Anderson Pedro Gomes, the driver. Your advisor Fernanda Chavez that he was also in the car suffered injuries, but he saved his life. The murder of this human rights activist has shocked the entire country.

Franco, from 38 years, came to intervene in an act for the rights of black women. She was rapporteur of the commission of the Council created to supervise the police operations in the framework of the military intervention in the city and had criticized with hardness the intervention of the Army in the security of Rio de Janeiro.

His death is part of an unprecedented political context; just a month ago the Brazilian president MIchel Temer decreed federal intervention in the security of Rio de Janeiro to combat the escalation of violence that last year caused 6.731 deaths. It is an unprecedented measure since the promulgation of the Constitution of 1989 that gives the military security control of the city until the end of 2018.

Defender of women's rights

Firm opponent to this intervention, Marielle questioned the violence and police abuses in the poorest neighborhoods. She herself had been born in one of the most violent favelas in the city: To Maré. He decided to get into the movements of Human rights after losing a friend, victim of a bullet in a shootout between police and drug traffickers in her favela. «The 19 years I was the mother of a girl: this helped me to become a fighter for the rights of women, and take this issue to the favelas«, Wrote the own Marielle.

He had recently denounced the police action in the favela of Acari, where two young people were killed by agents of the security forces.

«How many more have to die for this war to end?«. Sit tibi terra levis, partner.