00:00And now we go to Brazil where the Supreme Court begins to end Tuesday the trial of politicians accused of
00:06ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro Consulwomen Marial Franco.
00:11The top federal court will not try former federal lawmaker Chiquinho Brazao and his brother, former state lawmaker Domingos, who
00:19are accused of ordering the assassination.
00:21The two former military police officers who carried out the murders were given hefty jail terms in 2024.
00:30Marial Franco was an activist who grew up in a favela and became an outspoken critic of Rio's powerful militia
00:37groups.
00:38She was gunned down in the city center alongside her driver, Anderson Gomez.
00:44According to the prosecution, the accuser's motive was Franco's opposition to plans that would have legalized land illegally seized by
00:53militias that controlled large parts of the city.
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