00:00Eight years on from a murder that shocked Brazil, the country's Supreme Court will decide
00:05on the fate of powerful men accused of ordering it.
00:09Mariana Franco, a human rights activist and Rio city councillor, was gunned down along
00:13with her driver Anderson Gomes on March 14, 2014.
00:18Federal lawmaker Chiquinho Brazão and his brother Domingos are among those standing
00:23trial for commissioning two former military police officers to carry out the murder.
00:27The families want justice.
00:29It's time for us to also have the Brazilian state, the state of Rio de Janeiro especially,
00:34to have a response regarding those who ordered this barbaric act that was the murder of Marielle
00:40and Anderson.
00:42Today's trial has the power to give a very important answer, that institutional positions
00:48don't serve as a shield for committing crimes.
00:50Because it's not just whoever pulls the trigger who kills, but also who obstructs the investigation,
00:55whoever orders the killing, whoever pays for someone's death.
01:00The Brazaos are accused of ordering the murders because Marielle Franco was leading a campaign
01:05against Rio's militias, organised crime gangs that seized public land and extorted residents,
01:11to which the brothers were allegedly linked.
01:13Our expectation is to finally see justice done.
01:18To finally see Brazil send a message to the world that it's time to turn the page on impunity.
01:25Lawyers for the defence say the accusations rest solely on the testimony of Ronnie Lessa,
01:30one of the men convicted of the murder, which was offered as a plea bargain.
01:33The four-judge Supreme Court panel will begin deliberating the case on Wednesday.
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