In total, 186 shootings were recorded in Bahia, resulting in the deaths of 163 people; leader quilombola and ialorixá Mãe Bernadette was one of the victims
August was the month with the highest number of women killed in Bahia since the Fogo Cruzado Institute began its activities in the state in July 2022. In total, 27 women were victims of gun violence, 18 of whom were killed and nine wounds. The murder of the ialorixá and quilombola leader Mãe Bernadete is one of the cases with the greatest repercussions recorded in the period.
Maria Bernadete Pacífico, known as Mãe Bernadete, was murdered in a closed environment in Quilombo Pitanga dos Palmares, in the municipality of Simões Filho, Bahia, on 17 August. According to witnesses, two men entered Mãe Bernadette’s home and shot at the quilombola leader, who died of his injuries.
Three people have already been arrested for involvement in the murder of Bernadette, who was fighting for the investigation into the murder of her son, Flávio Gabriel Pacífico dos Santos, known as Binho do Quilombo, which took place in 2017.
In the period analyzed, Fogo Cruzado was responsible for a total of 186 shootings in Bahia, which left 163 people dead and 45 injured in Salvador and the metropolitan region.
Of the total shootings, 64 occurred during police actions and operations and 19 in the midst of clashes between armed groups. Compared to July, there have been 15 shootings between clashes, with seven people killed and four injured.
massacre records
Additionally, 27 people were killed in the massacres. According to the Institute, this is the highest number of deaths in massacres ever recorded, surpassing that of the previous month, when 24 people died in the massacres.
On August 28, nine people were found dead inside two houses located in the city of Mata de São João, in the Salvador Metropolitan Region (RMS). In all, seven bodies were charred and two were found with gunshot marks, both bodies belonging to two women who tried to save a teenager who had 50% of his body burned.
According to the Civil Police, the crime was motivated by jealousy. “The strand of the investigation is a passionate motivation combined with internal disputes within the same criminal group for the control of drug trafficking. The mastermind, one of those who resisted the police action, targeted a man known as Preá, who he was the boyfriend of the current author “During the attack, the former mother-in-law of the author and the other members of her family, as well as two women, were murdered,” said the director of the Metropolitan Police, deputy Christhiane Inocência, in a press conference held on 29 August.
On Tuesday night (5), one of the perpetrators, who was on the run, died in a clash with the police in the city of Dias D’Ávila, in the metropolitan region of Salvador, according to a note from the Public of Bahia. Secretariat for Security (SSP-BA). ).
In total, four people committed the massacre, three of whom were killed in a confrontation with police and one is under arrest after confessing to his involvement in the crime.
Racial profile and age range
Regarding the racial profile of the victims killed, 89 were black, two white and, out of the total number of victims (208), 117 did not have an identified racial profile. In the previous month, in July, 71 black people, three white people and 111 people with no identified racial profile had been killed.
In August, a child was killed and another injured; four teenagers were killed and three injured. Additionally, 149 adults were killed, 41 were injured, and two elderly people were killed. The age range of the 7 people killed could not be identified.
In the previous month a child had been killed, four teenagers had been killed; 137 adults were killed and 30 injured, one elderly man was killed and two injured. The age range of the six people killed and the four injured could not be identified
Source: Terra
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