Three Rio officials arrested in connection with Marielle Franco killing

For years, Brazil has asked the question, “Who ordered Marielle’s killing?”

Ever since the 2018 killing of the leftist politician and human rights activist Marielle Franco, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians have plastered that question on T-shirts, spray painted it on walls and posted it on social media. The name Marielle became a rallying call for the left.

Now, six years after her assassination, police say they’re beginning to answer that question.

Brazilian federal police arrested three well-known and politically connected Rio de Janeiro officials Sunday morning, naming them suspects in Franco’s killing and providing a rare look at the connections human rights activists have long alleged between the city’s entrenched political elite and the criminal militias that control a wide swath of this turbulent metropolis.

Read more: The Washington Post