Narrative against the police in the case of PM da Rota had help from organized crime

Reports on the death of Rota (Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar) police officer Patrick Bastos Reis, 30 years old – which occurred in Guarujá, on the coast of São Paulo, on Friday (28) – had the impact of narratives created by the crime itself. organized.

The police actions that followed the murder were criticized by left-wing politicians and opinion makers, especially after the death of criminals in exchanges of fire with the police. The narrative that the reaction was “disproportionate” spread in the media and on social networks.

Some elements of this narrative, however, were raised by organized crime itself.

On Monday, the website metropolises revealed a leaked audio in which Erickson David da Silva’s 28-year-old lawyer – a suspect who turned himself in to the police – guides his client in recording a video for social media before turning himself in. The plan to create a narrative against the governor of the state of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), and his secretary of Public Security, Guilherme Derrite, is evident.

“Say that you are giving yourself up from the heart, so that all this massacre that is happening in Guarujá ends, this cowardice with a father of a family within the community. And that then, to end it, he is giving himself up”, says the lawyer in the audio Published by Metropolis. “Mention the name of Governor Tarcísio and go up. Film his face and shoot this video there”, he adds.

In the video, Erickson follows the guidelines and says: “My name is Erickson David, the ‘Deivinho’. I want to tell Tarcísio and Derrite to stop killing there, killing a ‘shovel’ of innocent people, wanting to catch my family, since I have nothing to do with it. Here’s the thing, I’m going to turn myself in, because I have nothing to do with it, and that’s it.”

In addition to trying to manipulate public opinion with the recording of the video, organized crime may also have planted false facts to help give an air of human rights violations to the police reaction.

Some reports about the police operation – reproduced by the media – say that there was torture of one of the criminals killed by the PM. None of this has been proven to date.

For state deputy Capitão Telhada (PP-SP), who was once a member of Rota, caution is needed with this type of version of facts. He explains that, many times, the narrative disseminated by ideological militancy about confrontations between police and criminals is created by drug trafficking lawyers and by the traffickers themselves, in partnership with residents of communities involved with criminals in different degrees.

According to Telhada, accusations of torture often appear after media cases, often stimulated by organized crime itself.

“This is something we’ve seen since the 1970s, with a direction suggested by crime lawyers or even by organized crime itself, which uses people who have a relationship with crime and are embarrassed, convinced or paid to give false testimonies. No I had access to the records of this specific case in depth, but this practice is already very well known. Most of the time, they are fraudulent testimonies that only have the objective of raising doubts about police action, accusing police of crimes, of torture”, he comments.

“I’ve seen one incident, for example, where they said that the Rota team had kneeled down the bandit and shot him in the back of the head. When the body was analyzed, he had a shot in the stomach and a shot in the chest. unfounded testimonies, used to create a narrative for politicians, ombudsmen and human rights bodies biased in the political issue, with the aim of stopping police action”, he adds.