Barcelona: We demand punishment for the murderers of Marielle Franco

On Friday 16 March, a rally was held in Plaza Sant Jaume in Barcelona, to demand punishment of those materially and politically responsible for the death of Marielle Franco. Below we reproduce the statement we read at the concentration:

Upon returning from a political event, Councilor Marielle Franco was murdered in Rio de Janeiro, of PSOL, head of the municipal commission that investigates the actions of the unprecedented military intervention in said city decreed by President Temer. We repudiate this cowardly murder and demand the investigation and punishment of its material and intellectual authors.. It is evident that being a woman, negra, feminist, left, anti-drugs and anti-trigger-happy police were too much for Temer's reactionary government, that when the repressive forces are not enough, he uses vigilante gangs to silence the rebel voices.
However, In Brazil and around the world, tens of thousands of activists join in raising the same flags of struggle that Marielle raised so worthily..

• Justice for Marielle Franco!

• Investigation and punishment of those materially and intellectually responsible for the murder!

• Out with the military intervention in Rio!

• Long live the feminist struggle, antirepressive, anti-capitalist and socialist!”