What began as a political discussion over the heated dispute over the Brazilian presidency, which will be resolved between Lula da Silva and Bolsonaro in the second round on October 30, ended with a bloody murder.

The tragic episode took place in the afternoon of this Tuesday, even if it only happened the following day. The crime scene was a house located on Avenida Santo André in the municipality of Itanhanga, on the coast of Sao Paulo, where two cohabiting friends conducted a tense exchange of ideas on the electoral definition of the country.

The long-winded intersection gradually increased in temperature to one of them stabbed the other to death.

The electrician was arrested for murder. Luis Antonio Ferreira da Silva42, who admitted to police officers that he had stabbed the designer to death José Roberto Gomes Mendes (59), accused in the first place of having assaulted him. All not to coincide with his political ideology and, above all, for certain comments that he could not bear.

As he said, the discussion began when the victim, a supporter of Bolsonaro, assured during lunch that “all of the Workers’ Party (NdeR: the space led by Lula) are thievesFaced with this indictment, he replied: “You are eating the food that a petist bought.”

Then, according to the version he gave during the interrogation, Gomes Mendes got up from the table and threw him a frying pan and a radio. Ferreira da Silva, on his part, he took a knife from his hands he had grabbed it and used it to repel the fight.

According to the information that could be gathered in the investigation, it was possible to observe at least eight stab wounds on the victim’s body, more precisely on the face, back and neck. The body was taken to the morgue for the autopsy of the forensic team.

Meanwhile, the Civil Police seized the knife used as a murder weapon and asked that the different skills be carried out on the spot. Ferreira da Silva was arrested.

Inmate admitted killing his “hothead” friend

Delegate Arilson Brandao, of the General Investigation Division (DIG), summarized step by step how the crime took place: “Because of the political criticism of the victim, the suspect felt offended. They both started fighting and led to the crime. aggression “.

“One of them took a knife and, in the fight, the perpetrator managed to take the victim’s weapon and stabbed her,” he concluded in an interview with TV stand.

Furthermore, he stated that the man arrested for the murder acknowledged in his testimony that he was repentant: “The defendant claimed that committed the crime with his head held high“.

Far from being an isolated event, it fits into a context of political violence due to the presidential elections. Mayra Goulart, from the Department of Political Science, said: “Political violence has concentrated in local politics, with clashes between families and rival groups. In these elections, political violence took on an ideological turn, presenting itself as a dispute between right and left “.

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