1. Marielle Franco served as a city councillor of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro for the Socialism and Liberty Party from January 2017 until her assassination.
12 Facts About Marielle Franco
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Marielle Franco had been an outspoken critic of police brutality and extrajudicial killings, as well as the February 2018 federal intervention by Brazilian president Michel Temer in the state of Rio de Janeiro which resulted in the deployment of the army in police operations.
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Marielle Franco was raised in Mare, a slum in northern Rio de Janeiro, where she resided for most of her life, and began to work to contribute to the household income in 1990 when she was 11 years old.
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Marielle Franco gave birth to her first and only child in 1998 when she was 19 years old.
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Marielle Franco raised her daughter without the father's help and worked as a pre-school teacher on a minimum wage.
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Marielle Franco subsequently earned a master's degree in public administration from the Fluminense Federal University.
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Marielle Franco worked for civil society organizations, including the Brazil Foundation and the Mare Center for Solidarity Studies and Action.
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In 2016, Marielle Franco ran for a seat on the Rio de Janeiro city council in the municipal elections.
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Marielle Franco chaired the Women's Defense Commission and formed part of a four-person committee that monitored the federal intervention in Rio de Janeiro.
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The next day, Marielle Franco attended a round-table discussion titled "Young Black Women Moving [Power] Structures".
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The bullets that killed Marielle Franco are from a batch bought by the federal police in Brasilia in 2006; Minister of Public Security Raul Jungmann later said that they were stolen from a post office storage facility in Paraiba, but the ministry subsequently retracted this explanation after the Post Office publicly denied it.
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose husband David Miranda was a fellow City Council member at the time of her assassination and was a close personal friend of Marielle Franco's, listed what he referred to as the "most important subjects to cover" regarding Marielle Franco's assassination stating:.