Brazil’s supreme court begins trial of politicians in murder of Rio councilwoman

Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão accused of ordering assassination of Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018Brazil’s supreme court has opened the trial of politicians accused of ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco, a case that exposed deep ties between politics and organised crime in the city.Franco, an activist who grew up in a favela and became an outspoken critic of Rio’s powerful militia groups, was 38 when she was shot dead in the city center alongside her driver, Anderson Gomes. Continue reading…