Police Across Brazil Arrest Suspects in Holiday Domestic Violence Attacks

Overview

• In Praia Grande, São Paulo, investigators detained a 21-year-old woman and her 24-year-old partner after CCTV showed a fight with her mother, the knife was seized, and the case was logged as homicide as the daughter told police she does not remember the stabbings or acting in self-defense.
• In Ribeirão Preto, Daniela Messias Trindade Ferreira was killed at home and her husband, Carlos Henrique Fermino Lopes, was arrested in flagrante to face a feminicide charge as police said the couple’s six-year-old witnessed the attack and tried to intervene.
• In Cubatão, a 32-year-old was jailed on suspicion of attempting to kill his partner by setting her on fire after a jealousy dispute, with doctors reporting extensive second- and third-degree burns and police seeking conversion of the arrest to preventive detention.
• In Salinópolis, Pará, police said a man used gasoline in an attack that severely injured his partner and her 11-year-old daughter, he was captured in Santa Izabel do Pará, and a judge converted his detention to preventive custody.
• Other arrests included a stabbing case in Cabo Frio with a knife, a shotgun, ammunition and drugs seized, an attempted strangulation that left a woman in intensive care in Arapongas, a barbecue-fork assault in Cabreúva, and a Camaçari case involving head trauma and attempted asphyxiation, all under investigation by local units.