Doctors killed in Rio de Janeiro may have been killed by mistake

The investigation into the murders of three professionals from Sao Paulo, who had just arrived in Rio de Janeiro and were drinking beer in front of their hotel on a hot morning, points to a tragic mistake this Friday. Suspicion is heightened after the possibility of a political crime was raised as one of the dead doctors, Diego Ralph de Souza Bonfim, 35, was the brother of leftist MP Samia Bonfim and the son-in-law of her husband, also an MP. Glauber Braga. One of the dead doctors, 33-year-old Perceu Ribeiro Almeida, may also have been mistaken for the leader of a militia operating in the region and responsible for the death in September of Lesk’s then-chief confidant.

According to this new version, Perceu was very similar to this militiaman, Taillon de Almeida Pereira Barbosa, recently released from prison and living in a house on Avenida Lucio Costa, near the Windsor Hotel and the beach kiosk from which the doctors were shot. more than 30 shots. “Lesk” was informed that Taillon was in the bar in front of the hotel, three more criminals were called and they immediately went to the bar to kill the one they considered responsible for the death of their accomplice, but who actually was Perseus. , who was pleased with his first trip to Rio de Janeiro.

However, according to the police of what was once known as the “Wonderful City”, and today one of the most dangerous metropolises in Brazil, the four drug traffickers found dead early this Friday morning would have been executed on the orders of the very group to which they obeyed. belonged to Comando Vermelho. The bosses will decide to kill “Lesk”, Ryan and two others as punishment for a mistake, killing innocent doctors and causing a very strong reaction from the authorities and the police, since the death of the orthopedists led to the creation of a joint special squad of agents from the Rio police, the Sao Paulo police and the federal police, as well as the central government, sent the Secretary of State for Justice and Public Security, Ivan Capelli, along with a ministerial team to Rio de Janeiro. help in clarifying the death of doctors.

In addition to Perceu and Diego, the attack on the bar also killed 62-year-old doctor Marcos de Andrade Corsato, one of Brazil’s leading specialists in the field of foot and ankle surgery, director of the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Hospital das Clínicas de São Paulo, the largest in Latin America and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, USP. The fourth doctor at the table, orthopedist Daniel Sonnevend Proença, 32, managed to survive despite being shot 14 times and, after several operations, remained hospitalized this Friday at the Lourenço Jorge Hospital in the western zone of Rio. ., in a condition classified by this department of the hospital as “stable”.