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Furious Bolsonaro denies links to Brazil politician's murder

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AFP Brasilia
Last Updated : Oct 30 2019 | 4:05 PM IST

President Jair Bolsonaro angrily denied links to last year's assassination of a prominent Brazilian politician on Wednesday, after reports that a suspect in the murder investigation visited his residence before the killing.

Marielle Franco, a popular leftist city councillor in Rio de Janeiro, was gunned down alongside her driver in March 2018 -- a drive-by shooting that investigators described as a "summary execution."
Meanwhile the other lived in the same Rio de Janeiro residential complex as the president -- links that the Brazilian police have dismissed as a "coincidence."

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First Published: Oct 30 2019 | 4:05 PM IST

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