Living next door...
"Well, I was going to go for a short run, but with all the helicopters in the air, I dont think its so wise". I tell Marcelo.
But I go out anyway, to see three helicopters all staying in the same area, slightly to the north of where I am. They stay still, so there are not looking for a criminal at least (that is what I feared).
The next day, they are back, so I go up to see the street they are focused on over taken with the media. Camera crews, TV presenters on air, others preparing their script, news vans, cameras etc. They are looking onto a building.
I got home to search the web. I find that a lady called Suzane (effectionatley known as "Suzane Murder") has moved in. I tell Elias and with the usual response of lots of Portuguese shouting as everyone else in the MC rushes to see. They all instantly know the nortious muderer.
She and a boyfriend and a brother murdered her parents for money (I am told that she admitted to the killing, but blamed the men). The two men are in prison but she is free, awaiting a court date (I am unsure of the details, but I know that Brazilian Legal system is very long and left largely to chance so anything like this is to be expected... this from Elias, a Graduated Brazilian who read Law).
She is under house arrest and so is legally free to move, so long as she notified the police (which I assume she did) and so really it was a no-news story. A criminal who is doing what she is allowed to do. But to media it was a great scoop! A murderer who is moving house!
She moved from another district of Sao Paulo to get away from the press intrusion and the hate from people. And... she came to Vila Mariana to meet the media (more of it, now she moved) and hate, but at least from new people.
I wonder how much the media play a role in these cases. She is doing nothing wrong (as per the Brazilian legal system). Indeed there could be a case against the media (do they have a right to intrude so closely, helicopters, into a person who is following the legal process by the letter?) and the public (should they show hate towards Suzan or towards the state which lets her move house?).
The media - informing the public of the legal system (that muderers like Suzan can move house freely) or stirring up anger and unrest?
But I go out anyway, to see three helicopters all staying in the same area, slightly to the north of where I am. They stay still, so there are not looking for a criminal at least (that is what I feared).
The next day, they are back, so I go up to see the street they are focused on over taken with the media. Camera crews, TV presenters on air, others preparing their script, news vans, cameras etc. They are looking onto a building.
I got home to search the web. I find that a lady called Suzane (effectionatley known as "Suzane Murder") has moved in. I tell Elias and with the usual response of lots of Portuguese shouting as everyone else in the MC rushes to see. They all instantly know the nortious muderer.
She and a boyfriend and a brother murdered her parents for money (I am told that she admitted to the killing, but blamed the men). The two men are in prison but she is free, awaiting a court date (I am unsure of the details, but I know that Brazilian Legal system is very long and left largely to chance so anything like this is to be expected... this from Elias, a Graduated Brazilian who read Law).
She is under house arrest and so is legally free to move, so long as she notified the police (which I assume she did) and so really it was a no-news story. A criminal who is doing what she is allowed to do. But to media it was a great scoop! A murderer who is moving house!
She moved from another district of Sao Paulo to get away from the press intrusion and the hate from people. And... she came to Vila Mariana to meet the media (more of it, now she moved) and hate, but at least from new people.
I wonder how much the media play a role in these cases. She is doing nothing wrong (as per the Brazilian legal system). Indeed there could be a case against the media (do they have a right to intrude so closely, helicopters, into a person who is following the legal process by the letter?) and the public (should they show hate towards Suzan or towards the state which lets her move house?).
The media - informing the public of the legal system (that muderers like Suzan can move house freely) or stirring up anger and unrest?
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So you do have a blog.
Jota
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