Ait doesn’t last, justice he came On October 31, two former police officers were sentenced to 138 years in prison for the murder of Marielle Franco, a councilwoman they killed in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. A black gay woman from a favelaMrs. Franco was an icon of Brazil’s left. She had made it her mission to expose the connections between local politicians and militias in Rio. The assassination shocked a nation accustomed to violence. She may have been killed for denouncing militia members’ attempts to illegally seize public land and build on it.