The 25-year-old man who killed four children with an ax at a daycare center in Blumenau, in the Itajaí Valley, in Santa Catarina, Brazil, on Wednesday has already been heard by authorities and charged with four crimes of double entender. qualified manslaughter and for four triple counts of attempted murder. According to the police, this is not the first time that the suspect has come into contact with the law.
According to O Globo newspaper, the suspect has seven reports of bodily harm, brawling and possession of cocaine. Records show that the cases occurred in 2016, 2021 and 2022.
According to Brazilian authorities, the man had already stabbed his stepfather in an act committed in March 2021. In addition, he was caught possessing cocaine last year and stabbed his stepfather’s dog after breaking into the door of the house. Earlier, in 2016, he had been involved in a nightclub brawl.
The suspect in the murder of four children in a daycare center has already been questioned on Wednesday, and the authorities have already asked for the recording of telephone conversations and access to computers. The Meta group, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has also made itself available to provide any information that could help the investigation.
However, the government of the state of Santa Catarina has canceled all classes in the city of Blumenau for the next few days and has declared three days of official mourning.
The four children who died were three boys and a girl, between the ages of four and seven. Five others were injured in the attack.
“He already had police passages, but we don’t know what convictions. About what happened, we know that he jumped over the wall where there were about 40 children and committed this atrocity,” said the head of the military police, who the ability to deny any news posted on the circular and any connection between the subject and the nursery: “It was an isolated case and various unfounded information has been circulated with misinformation about the case.”
According to the fire service, there were 40 children in the nursery at the time of the attack. The injured, four children, two 5-year-old girls and two 5- and 3-year-old boys, were taken to hospital. One of them is in serious condition, another in moderate condition and two with minor injuries. A fifth child was also taken to hospital by the mother, also with minor injuries.
Flávio Dino, Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, has already announced an increase in funds for Brazilian states and municipalities to strengthen school rounds conducted by the police. And he also revealed that the authorities will pay more attention to everything that threats are made over the internet.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took to social networks to lament the attack on Wednesday. “There is no greater pain than that of a family losing its children or grandchildren, and even more so in an act of violence against innocent and defenseless children. Shepherd,” he wrote.
“For any human being who has the Christian feeling, a tragedy like this is unacceptable, a behavior, an absurd act of hatred and cowardice like this,” he added.
This attack occurred less than ten days after a school in São Paulo was targeted by a teenage student who killed a teacher with a knife and wounded three others in addition to a student. Since 2011, more than 10 schools in Brazil have been attacked by criminals.
Source: DN
