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Extreme violence against poor people
After police repression, Occupation March 29 is destroyed by fire in Curitiba
More than 200 homes were destroyed by fire, which began at the same spot where a PM was killed; villagers blame police for fire, which, in turn, attributes to organized crime
More than 200 dwellings of the Occupation March 29, located in Curitiba (PR), were destroyed by a fire between the end of Friday night (7/12) and the dawn of this Saturday (8/12). The site is close to Corbélia Village and comprises a complex of popular housing formed by 4 occupations: Nova Primavera, created in 2012, March 29 - which was reached - and Tiradentes, which emerged in 2015, and the most recent, Dona Cida, which began in 2016. It is estimated that more than 1,500 families live in the complex.
Residents claim the fire took place in retaliation for the killing of a PM in the early hours of Friday morning. The soldier, Erick Nório, 28, was shot dead by a machine gun at the entrance to the occupation, when, according to a note from the Military Police of Paraná, it was to respond to a "disturbance of quiet" occurrence. "The state military was, cowardly, shot with two shots, passed away, leaving wife and a four-year-old son. The corporation is saddened by another brother in uniform who, in discharging his duty, left us, "says the note.
At a news conference this afternoon, the commander of the 23rd Battalion
of Military Police, Lieutenant Colonel Nivaldo Marcelos da Silva, affirms that there are "two or three deaths to be verified, in order to understand the relation between the deaths and the fact itself [Erick's murder]. The fire of great proportions we are attributing to a retaliation of the traffic or the organized crime against the police action that was being done there, "emphasized Nivaldo.
Revival: fire in Vila Corbélia may have been triggered by PMs,.
According to Paulo Bearzoti Filho, a member of the MPM (Popular Movement for Housing), who assisted the residents, police spent the whole Friday in the region in search of their colleague's murder, entering houses without a warrant and carrying out abusive approaches.
"They went on to blitz and get into the shack [after the PM murder]. There was siege in the community. Who was at home, that's fine. But whoever was not had a lock and doors broken. Throughout the day, we have reported that this was growing, perhaps because they did not find the culprit and were losing their patience and there are even reports of threats, such as: 'Look, by day, that's fine, but the time comes you will see at night, '"he said. Paul was fired by his comrades when the fire began. There was pressure for villagers to hand over the suspect to shoot and kill Erick, but by then the sniper had already fled.
"It was a sadness, a cruelty. And the reports converge on the possibility that the military police have caused the fire. Of course, they will have another version. But it's complicated because or it was, let's think of a hypothesis, an accident, or they even set fire to. Because it was in exactly the same place [where the soldier was killed]. I think a lot of coincidence, "said Paulo Bearzoti Filho. "The locals are very scared the next night."
For Paulo, the fire is exposed to the fallacy of the model city of Curitiba. "It is the urban myth of Brazil that there is no poverty here. What has here is the greatest socio-spatial segregation of Brazil. Because here you do not see poverty, it is hidden, "says the militant.
Residents confirmed to the IDP (Popular Democracy Institute) the same reports collected by Paulo. "I was not home, I preferred to spend the day away from home. My door was padlocked. I arrived the gate was open and the padlock burst. No authorization they are asking, they are bursting the padlocks and coming in. I do not know how this situation will get, it's complicated, "one resident reported. "It's getting tense here. The cops are trying to stifle us. Reprisal against us. They're not forgiving anyone, they're shooting straight up, they're breaking into the shack, breaking in. They're shooting, they will not let anyone out on the street, "another resident said.
One resident of New Spring occupation reported that police officers entered her house and made accusations. "They came into my house and said that I had sold drugs, that I kept drugs for traffickers. They went into the houses, looked under the bed, "he said.
On Saturday morning (8/12), the Fire Department, Civil Defense and Social Assistance of the municipality of Curitiba were still making the aftermath in the place and the weather, besides much consternation, was of fear. "They stabbed a young man down in the spring to force them to tell who this person was [who would have killed PM Erick Nório]. No one knows who that person was who killed and they want us to tell them who they are without us knowing who they are. And they said yesterday that they were going to come later and that they were going to do it, set it on fire. I was here, I saw. I was with a neighbor here [points to the house] because she was scared and I heard when the policemen entered a house and they said: 'Leave it because it will be worse' and they set fire to the shack, "said a resident who did not want to identify. "Families have to pay for a mistake from a person that we do not even know who they are. Now we're going to live in the military's house then. "
Residents of the occupations organized this Saturday to carry out mutirões of donations for families that lost everything in the fire. The donations are being delivered in a shed in the Dona Cida Occupation.
According to firefighter Rafaela Diotaleve, in a group still at dawn, the area and the amount of flammable material made it difficult to control the flames. "It was difficult to confine the place, so that the flames did not advance to other residences. We had to enter with hoses and only with personnel to control the fire because it could not access with vehicle ", he affirmed in a collective still at dawn. Some families are being housed at the Hamilton Calderari Leal Municipal School. The Fire Department estimates that the damages have reached almost 300 shacks.
According to public defender Olenka Lins, the situation in the region is devastating. "It's extreme calamity. We need to create a task force and try to minimize the losses of this population here. We are in contact with the organs of the public power to try to make feasible the social rent, eventual relocation of these people. The criminal conduct eventually committed will be forwarded to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Public Defender's Human Rights Unit is also acting. The allegations [of police abuses] are being sent and the prosecution must arrive sooner to take testimony of the people, "explained Olenka.
Deputy Tadeu Veneri, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly of Paraná, emphasizes that reports of alleged torture and abuses by police officers need to be cleared. "It is unfortunate the death of the policeman, who has family, son. And we knew and did not understand that this person [who killed the PM] tried to surrender twice and could not. Now you have nothing to do, because that person is evidently no longer here. It is tragic that there have been destruction of 200 homes destroyed by a fire that there are several people claiming it was the police. On the other hand, the police assign to criminal groups operating in the region. There are families that are homeless, have lost everything, clothes, documents, "he said. The land where Occupation March 29 is located is public and, according to Veneri,
Other side
At a press conference, the Military Police called the allegations of police abuse a liar. "All actions developed by the security forces, the Military and Civil Police, were ruled within the legality. There was no isolated action that could be questioned. Light accusations are coming to our knowledge. Of course, all mechanisms of investigative corregedoria, can verify or not what we are saying here, "said Lieutenant Colonel Nivaldo Marcelos da Silva.
Colonel Péricles de Matos, head of the 1st Regional Command of the PM of Paraná, reinforced the speech of the colleague and said that the community itself helped the police to identify the sniper who killed the PM. "The community that does not engage in criminal activity has been reprimanded for the organized crime that operates there," he said.
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