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Weekly Report - 20 February 2014 (WR-14-07)

BRAZIL: Investigating the black blocs

On 18 February congressional deputies from the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) and the Partido Solidariedade (SDD) started collecting signatures to authorise a parliamentary inquiry into the formation and financing of Brazil’s ‘black bloc’ protest movements. Since the death of the cameraman Santiago Andrade last week, Brazil’s media have been attempting to unmask the protesters. The hunt was given added impetus by comments from Jonas Tadeu Nunes, the lawyer who is defending the two demonstrators accused of setting off the firecracker that killed Andrade. Nunes claims the two young men received R$150 (US$60) to participate in the protest, and he accused political parties and social organisations of grooming the demonstrators. A number of suspected political parties and individual deputies were subsequently accused of fomenting the violence.

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