The Brazilian politician for the Workers’ Party (PT) known as ‘Zezinho’ was murdered this Friday in the municipality of Jandira, in the state of Sao Paulo, where an armed person shot him from inside a vehicle very close to his home.
Reginaldo Camilo dos Santos, 51 years old, had run for federal deputy in the elections of last October 2 where he received about 9,000 votes but was finally not elected. In 2020 he was a candidate for mayor of Jandira, occupying a third place after the elections, so he served as councilman.
In the last week several images had been published in social networks in which he appears campaigning for Fernando Haddad of the PT, candidate for governor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, candidate for the presidency of Brazil, according to ‘O Globo’.
For the moment, the Metropolitan Civil Guard has stated that the motive of the crime is unknown, although the elected federal deputy Jilmar Tatto (PT) has affirmed that the first information points to a hate crime, although the case must be analyzed in detail.
«Witnesses have reported that a person passed by shouting Bolsonaro, he (Zezinho) shouted Lula and the person pulled out his gun and fired three shots. Everything indicates that it was the action of a Bolsonarist within this climate of intolerance in the country,» he said, according to the same newspaper.
This event takes place only two days before what has been described as the most polarized elections in the country in the last two decades, which has led to violent incidents that have even claimed a life, as on this occasion.
