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The São Paulo Public Prosecution Service denounced three military police for attempted murder against motoboy Evandro Silva. The case took place in Operation Shield, in which 28 people were killed, according to the official records of the security forces. The operation was triggered after the death of a police officer in Baixada Santista in July 2023 and lasted 40 days.
On August 30, 2023, the police broke into the property where the motoboy was, a small delivery company, at the José Menino hill, in Santos, south coast of São Paulo. The agents had already searched the motoboy that reported being an egress of the prison system.
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Evandro was changing in the bathroom when he was hit by a 12 -caliber shot, fired from the street window by one of the police. He got up, broke a window and launched himself. The motoboy fell from a height of 7 meters, on a stone that served as the basis for the building. At the scene, he was shot again by pistol shots and given as dead. He woke up only when Samu’s rescuer went to ascertain his state.
According to him, the police were surprised to hear the rescuer scream, “Now he’s with us.” Evandro only woke up in the hospital two weeks later.
The case again won headlines after the circulation of images from the police cameras of the police, in which it is seen that Evandro was neither armed or sketched reaction, according to the version presented by the police.
The lawsuit continues under the secret of justice, as well as the other 21 investigations into killed and injured during the operation, 17 of which were filed by the State Justice, and two thrived, making defendants five other police officers.
In September 2024, a report by researchers from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) already pointed to serious flaws in the investigations of Operation Shield.
In a note to Brazil agencyEvandro said he and his family have received the news of the complaint against the police and awaits the agents to be held responsible.
“It is impossible not to remember everything I went through, the pain, the fear and the struggle to survive. This denunciation does not erase what I lived, but means that my voice was heard and that the truth begins to be recognized,” he says.
According to Evandro, “surviving was already an act of resistance.”
“Seeing justice now moving is a hope that my pain will not be in vain and that responsible will be possibly responsible. I speak not only for me, but for all the families and victims who suffered from police violence and who have often been silent, without answers.”
Motoboy thanked the support of several people and entities, such as the mothers of May, Conectas, Human Rights Center of the Public Defender and the Public Prosecution Service.
“May this step open the way so that no one else needs to go through what I went through. Justice does not return what was lost, but it is the least so that we can believe in a future of respect and dignity,” Evandro concluded in a statement.
