sexta-feira, 18 de outubro de 2024

Case of Ana Lídia kidnapped and raped in Brasília

Case of Ana Lídia kidnapped and raped in Brasília

Excuse me, I arrived in Brasília in 1970 when I was 15 years old, so the crime occurred when I was 18.

Asa Norte, where the kidnapping, rape and death of 8-year-old Ana Lídia took place, didn't even have asphalt and the city was very small with just over fifty thousand inhabitants.

Living in Brasília as a pioneer meant getting used to the monotony of the city with no leisure centers and an epidemic of anomic suicides, few crimes, few thefts except of cars; it was said that the people of Brasília were made up of heads, torsos and wheels.

Since the city was deserted, we knew everything that was going on because there was little news on a daily basis with three local almost amateur TV channels without internet, radio or satellite TV; the news circulated by word of mouth.

It was a village, a faceless town in the interior, with around 100,000 workers, the so-called candangos, all men, and around 50,000 civil servants with their families, creating a demographic imbalance between the sexes and a huge income gap among the residents here, a small India with its castes.

Among the youth, the groups were well defined and well-known, so these young men from the groups who roamed the city looking for something to occupy themselves in their daily and nightly boredom, formed a very small community and everything they did was talked about in circles as chatter and they tried to kill the boredom of the complete lack of leisure, since there were little more than six movie theaters in the entire city, two theaters, and a shopping center.

Some cool spots like Pizzaria Dom Bosco, the Beirute and Arabesk bars, Praline, a confectionery for the rich and famous, Bar Bem, and this was the nightlife of the city, for those who couldn't escape to Goiânia, which has hundreds of bars and restaurants with a real nightlife.

The place where Ana Lídia lives was considered a low Plano Piloto, in fact block 405/6 was for the lower middle class, the upper middle class lived in six-story buildings facing the highway axis in blocks one hundred and two hundred, some of them in the three hundred were older and recently built in the south and north wings, they were residences of senators and heads of state-owned companies.

The social geography of the classes was very closed. I studied at UnB and it was very elite. 99% of the students at UnB lived in the North and South Park Way lakes, and the rest lived in Plano Piloto, mainly in the houses in W5 Sul. So when something happened, the news would immediately spread throughout the city. Everyone knew about everything, especially about the parties held by the authorities with prostitutes, artists, casinos, drugs, and marital infidelity.

Brasília was the national capital of divorces, mystical religions, drugs, alcohol, cars, easy money, and fraudsters. Therefore, it was a small country Las Vegas.

After the murder, much evidence was planted in the Ana Lídia case, which was said at the time to be just another case of an accident at one of the many pedophilia orgies that went wrong. There was no kidnapping for ransom. The usual young men were invited to rape yet another minor, with the presence of big names, now called businessmen, and rich boys from influential families, which had nothing to do with the military regime. The city governor was appointed and had to balance himself between the generals in power and the captains of the wealthy society that ruled the city's nightlife. Everyone knew about the adultery of the senators, the governors, the ministers, and the clandestine casinos. What happened in this case is that the sexual orgy of rich pedophiles went wrong, and they tried to create another criminal type of kidnapping for extortion because it doesn't make sense for a lower middle class boy to hang out with rich boys and get credit to use expensive drugs. Her brother sold Ana Lídia to the abuse that was what was being said at the time, nothing to do with this story of kidnapping the daughter of a poor person or a cover-up by military dictators, a simple agreement by the elites of Brasilia society, like many that we witness inside the palaces and luxury hotels and mansions on the lakefront.


Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político

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