the Brazilian footballer MarcinhoAmérica Mineiro player and former Botafogo winger was sentenced manslaughter for causing the deaths of two people after hitting them with his vehicle in Rio de Janeiro, in December 2020, official sources said on Wednesday.
The events occurred on December 29, 2020 when professors Maria Cristina José Soares and Alexandre Silva de Lima have been invested by the soccer player as they crossed an avenue in a neighborhood west of Rio.
The decision was handed down by Judge Rudi Baldi Loewenkoron, of the 34th Criminal Division of the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro, who ordered that the footballer is serving three years and six months in semi-open prison provision of social services as a sanction.
According to the judge, although the footballer had no intention of killing, he was driving the car at high speed, He fled the scene without providing assistance to the victims. and only appeared before the authorities five days laterwhich made it impossible to do a breathalyzer test.
“It should be noted that the defendant himself stated that he was aware of the existence of a fire station near the location, but He didn’t think to go there for helphaving never thought of the victims, but only of himself,” the judge wrote in his ruling.
In the provision, the investigating judge also took into account the fact that the victims crossed the avenue outside the area permitted by the pedestrian crossings.
The footballer, who at the time played for Botafogo, the club that fired him the day after the events, also had his license suspended for the same period as the sentence.
Source: Clarin
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