Two days after resigning as president of the Mancha Alviverde fan club, Jorge Luis Sampaio dos Santos, 44, handed himself in to the police this Wednesday (11) at the headquarters of the DHPP (Department of Homicide and Personal Protection), in the center of São Paulo. Paul. Suspected of participating in the ambush of a bus with the Mafia Azul, from Cruzeiro, which ended in the death of a Cruzeiro man, he was on the run.
Santos’ lawyer, Jacob Filho, had released a note on Monday (9) informing that his client would surrender as long as his physical integrity and safety were preserved. “He feels threatened,” said the defender, without defining a date.
With this arrest, the Civil Police now has 14 people involved in the ambush arrested. This Tuesday (10), Leandro Gomes dos Santos, director of Mancha Alviverde known as Leandrinho, also handed himself in and was provisionally arrested. Since the beginning of November there were provisional arrest warrants against them.
In addition to Leandrinho and Santos, deputy Felipe Mattos Santos, known as Fezinho, 31, is also on the run. The police are looking for two other people linked to the organized Palmeiras fans.
On the 3rd, ten people suspected of participating in the ambush against Cruzeiro residents were arrested. Among those detained is lawyer Luiz Ferreti Júnior, who defends Mancha Alviverde. The reason for the arrest was not disclosed, but he was believed to be at the time of the ambush. Previously, two other suspects had been arrested.
The ambush ended with the death of motorcycle courier José Victor Miranda, 30.
It was Sunday morning, October 27th, when two buses with members of the Blue Mafia (organized by the Minas Gerais club) that were heading from Curitiba (PR) to Belo Horizonte (MG) were attacked by Mancha fans on the Fernão Dias highway.
The action, at the Mairiporã tollbooth, in Greater São Paulo, was a response to a fight that occurred on the same highway, but on Minas Gerais soil, two years earlier.
On that occasion, the Palmeiras residents got the worst of it. Among them was the then president Jorge Luis Sampaio dos Santos, who had his documents stolen and later displayed as a trophy at Cruzeiro games.
