This Wednesday, Brazilian civilian police charged a Portuguese citizen, a manager of a Zara brand store in a mall in Fortaleza, with a racist crime against a black shopper, police sources told Lusa.
According to the civil police of the Brazilian state of Ceara, 32-year-old Portuguese Bruno Filipe Simões Antonio was charged under article 5 of the Racial Crimes Act for refusing to prevent access to commercial enterprises, refusing to serve. or get a customer or buyer.
The case dates back to September 14, when a black police chief was stopped while trying to break into Zara’s store.
Delegate Ana Paula Barroso, deputy director of the Department for the Protection of Vulnerable Groups, was eating ice cream when she was not allowed to enter the store.
It is for this reason, the establishment claims, that the woman was barred from entering the bloc due to security protocols against covid-19.
However, a few minutes before that, another person entered the same store without using the covid-19 protective mask correctly, he was allowed to enter the store, and he was even helped by the same employee who did not ask him to use protective gear correctly. …
“The images analyzed by the Ceará State Forensic Science Department and the Police Intelligence Department demonstrate the suspect’s discriminatory attitude,” the civilian police said.
“The visuals received through the store’s internal network show different treatment of the victim by the store employee. The images show when the victim was kicked out of the scene, and a few minutes before that, the same employee visited the client who did not even eat. , misused the mask, ”the corporation said in a statement.
The scene was observed in other situations, when other customers were not taken out of the store or approached to properly wear a mask.
In addition to the allegedly criminal behavior practiced by the Portuguese, the civilian police also discovered that the aforementioned Zara store used a sound system to alert to the presence of black or “poorly dressed” citizens in its department.
“They used the code to alert other officers to the presence of ‘suspects’, that is, blacks or people who were ‘poorly dressed,’” a civilian police source told Luce.
Zara used the “Zara zerou” beep code on its internal speakers to indicate to employees which customers should be considered “potential suspects.”
In the course of the investigation, in addition to the photographs taken, the Civil Police collected testimonies from eight witnesses, as well as from the victim and the suspect.
Among those interviewed was a 27-year-old black woman who reported on social media that she experienced a similar situation at the end of June this year in the same store.
Two former employees of the establishment were also heard, who reported cases of moral harassment and discriminatory procedures in the form of serving potential clients. Three security guards from the shopping center where the store operates and the head of security at the facility were also heard.
Portuguese citizens can be sentenced to prison terms of one to three years.
The store can be held liable for non-pecuniary damage under the Brazilian Civil Code.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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