The Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo (TJ-SP) would re-judge today the sentences of 74 military police officers convicted of the Carandiru massacre. The session, however, was suspended, due to a request from judge Edison Brandão. On October 2, 1992, 111 inmates were killed in the São Paulo Detention House, known as Carandiru, after the violent entry of a battalion from Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar (Rota). After 30 years, no agent involved in the crime has been arrested.
The return of the trial took place after a decision by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on November 17th. On the occasion, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso recognized the final and unappealable decision of two decisions by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) that upheld the conviction of the police officers, which means that it is no longer possible to question the decision.
After that, the case went to the TJ-SP for the analysis of two requests from the defense, which asked for the sentence to be mitigated. Judges Roberto Porto, Camilo Léllis and Edison Brandão are responsible for the trial, which analyzes the period of sentences and the type of regime that will be applied.
Defense lawyer Eliezer Pereira Martins and prosecutor Maurício Antonio Lopes, representing the Public Ministry, also participated in the hearing. After a request from Edison Brandão, the session was interrupted. The case will only be judged again next month or in January 2023.
Massacre reveals racism and failure of the prison system
Researchers, survivors of the massacre and family members were at Unicamp to discuss the 30th anniversary of the Carandiru massacre and the persistence of massacres in democracies. Mauricio Monteiro and André du Rap, survivors, recall, in a report produced by TV Unicamp, what that October 2, 1992 represented. They talk about the search for justice and the intertwining between racism and the naturalization of the victims' deaths, in mostly young black people.
In the article, social scientist Camila Vedovello also points out how impunity and the State guarantee the persistence of massacres – there were around 820 between 1985 and 2020.
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