The mother and sister of Sandro José Vidal da Silva, tortured by three military police officers in 2018, in Rio Branco, should win R$45,000 in compensation for moral damages. The court ordered the State to pay R$30,000 to the victim's mother and R$15,000 to his sister.
The decision recognized that the violence carried out by the police caused suffering to the family and that the case exceeded the limits of a police approach. Sandro died in November 2024, more than six years after the torture, after suffering a traffic accident.
g1 contacted the state government and, until the last update of this report, had not received a response.
The attacks took place in February 2018, in the Aeroporto Velho neighborhood, in Rio Branco. Sandro was approached by military police officers Ângelo Gleiwitz Moreira Siriano, Leonardo Lima e Lima and Nilando da Silva Diniz. The three soldiers were convicted of torture and the sentence in this case was final in November 2021.
To g1, Maryna Vidal da Silva, Sandro's sister, informed that the family has already been notified of the decision by the public defender who is monitoring the case. She said everyone is still trying to assimilate the result.
She also said that her mother still remembers Sandro every day and that her health makes the moment even more difficult.
“It seems that there was no type of justice because a result has only come out now, after years”, he stated.
According to the complaint from the Public Ministry of Acre (MP-AC), Sandro was approached by military police officers Ângelo Gleiwitz Moreira Siriano, Leonardo Lima e Lima and Nilando da Silva Diniz.
According to the accusation, the police officers punched, kicked and beat Sandro with a baton, in addition to making psychological threats. The victim was also taken to the banks of the river, where he was forced to lie down in the mud.
Even after Sandro said he didn't know how to swim, the police made him jump into the river, according to the complaint. The attacks caused serious injuries and fractures to the body.
At the time, the MP-AC denounced the three police officers for the crime of torture and requested, in addition to the conviction, compensation for the damage caused to the victim and the loss of public positions.
The soldiers were arrested in May 2019. That same year, the courts maintained the preventive detention of the three. In 2021, the Criminal Chamber of the Acre Court of Justice upheld the conviction.
The sentences totaled more than 19 years in prison, initially in a semi-open regime. The defenses even asked for the crime of torture to be downgraded to bodily harm and also for the sentences to be reduced, but the requests were not accepted.
Furthermore, the action was filed by Sandro's mother and sister against the State. In the process, they claimed that the attacks left physical and psychological damage on the victim and also caused suffering to the family.
The State contested the request and claimed, among other points, that the action had been filed after the deadline. The court rejected this argument because torture was also investigated and prosecuted in the criminal sphere.
In the sentence, the judge considered that there was no further discussion about the occurrence of torture or the participation of the police, as these points were definitively recognized by the Court.
Sandro died on November 11, 2024, more than six years after the torture. He suffered a traffic accident and died as a result of neurogenic shock.
The court made it clear that the death had no proven connection with the attacks in 2018. Therefore, the State was not ordered to pay compensation for the death or a pension to the family.
The pension request was also denied because there was not sufficient proof that the mother or sister were financially dependent on Sandro.
The compensation of R$45,000, therefore, refers only to moral damages caused by torture. The values will still have monetary correction and interest.
