Videos show police officer to put an object that looks like a knife next to Odair’s body

The road would be varies until a agent has planted a knife by the body, suggest images shared by a resident that are being analyzed by PJ.

RM was a team with the PSP that on October 21, 2024. At the time, the authorities believed that the 43-year-old Cape Verdean man had threatened the police with a white weapon before being killed with two shots.

“In the immediate place where Odair’s body fell near the car that was parked there, and about two minutes after the body was removed, a 25 cm long dagger 15 cm of serrated blade and 10 cm cable in black plastic, with registration in the male blade ”.

The object “did not have enough biological traces to obtain an DNA profile.” Thus described the order of the prosecutor in the police accusation.

However, 6 different videos recorded by a resident of Cova da Moura, In Amadora, made to reach the recorded between 5:35 am and 6:03 am, and which were the target of analysis of the Scientific Police Laboratory (LPC) of the Judicial Police, They can tell another story.

The videos show agent RM to put (“seems to land on the floor”) a “object morphologically similar to a knife,” according to the LPC. Before the agent’s appearance, the images show the ground empty. The possible knife will be placed next to the rear tire of a red car that was by Odair’s already inanimate body.

The PJ report dated February already admitted that the knife that was by the body could have been handled with gloves. “Handling an object with gloves can lead to DNA insufficiency for analysisbecause they act as a physical barrier that prevents or minimizes transfer. ”