23 Police Officers Get 156 Years Each For Prison Massacre

Date: 23-04-2013 1:30 am (10 years ago) | Author: franel
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«§» 23 April 2013

Twenty-three Brazilian police officers have been sentenced to 156 years in jail each for their role in the killing of 111 inmates in 1992 during Brazil’s deadliest-ever prison uprising.



The policemen, most of them now retired, were accused of killing 15 prisoners in Sao Paulo’s Carandiru prison during the operation to quell the revolt on October 2, 1992, which came to be known as the “Carandiru massacre.”

Survivors had described scenes of chaos, accusing police of firing on inmates who had already surrendered or were hiding in their cells. In addition to the 111 prisoners who were killed, another 87 were wounded.

No police were harmed in the operation, but the defence said they fired in self-defence after being threatened and assaulted by the prisoners. Three other policemen in the trial were cleared of wrongdoing.

Defence lawyer Ieda Ribeiro de Souza slammed the narrow verdict, saying she had already appealed against the sentences.

“One vote made the difference. I did not expect any condemnation,” she told reporters.



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