A newspaper editor of Mogi das Cruzes is threatened with death

Laércio Ribeiro, editor of the crime section of the newspaper O Diário, from Mogi das Cruzes, state of São Paulo, says that he was threatened with death by phone and chased by someone in a car last Thursday, June 4th, when he left the newspaper building.

“I received two phone calls in the editorial office from someone saying that my wife and I would be killed”, said Mr. Ribeiro in an interview for Abraji.

In the following day, Friday 5th, the journalist was threatened again, this time in his mobile phone. As the phone number was recorded in his mobile phone, he filed a police report in the Second Police Division of Braz Cubas, Mogi das Cruzes.

In the interview for Abraji, the journalist declared: “I believe that these threats come from the CNH (Driver’s License) Mafia or the Nickel Hunt Mafia, due to the reports published by the newspaper. The Police Chief Carlos Jose Ramos da Silva, suspended at the moment, was accused several times by the Department of Public Prosecution. He is involved in all this. He has been already arrested and now he is set free on parole. After leaving the jail, he promised that he would settle the scores with everyone”.
 
According to Edson Gianuzzi, the Police Chief responsible for this case, in the event of a threat, the police report itself is not enough to start an investigation. “A threat is considered a public action subjected to a complaint. We can only continue the investigation with a formal complaint of the offended”. According to the Police Chief, Mr. Ribeiro will provide an official complaint which enables the threat investigation.