Brazil Reports String of Gender-Based Attacks as Police Detain Suspects and Hunt Others

Overview

• Recife police took a Uruguayan man into custody after he directed officers to the apartment where Lorena de Araújo Duarte was found dead, and investigators are treating the case as feminicide.
• In Uberaba, investigators are seeking the main suspect in the stabbing death of hairdresser Raphaella Fachinelli after her car was found in São Paulo with bloodstains and processed by forensics.
• In Salvador, a condo worker seen on security video striking a colleague with a helmet presented himself to police, was released from the station, and is being investigated for intentional bodily injury as his employer moves to fire him.
• In Campos Altos, a 40-year-old man was arrested on charges under the Maria da Penha law after police found a 22-year-old girlfriend injured and accessed videos he recorded of alleged beatings and captivity.
• In Tocantinópolis, a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay R$50,000 in damages for attempting to kill his ex-partner and a baby in a 2016 knife attack.