Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq

Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq
Foundation1965
CountryBrazil
MotivesAvenge the death on duty of Milton Le Cocq, a famous police detective from the state of Rio de Janeiro
StatusExtinguished by court decision in 2004
OpponentsCriminals

Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq[1][2] or Esquadrão Le Cocq was a paramilitary organization created by police officers in Rio de Janeiro in 1965 and which operated mainly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, being extinguished by court order in 2004.[3] This organization killed at least 1,500 people in Espírito Santo and is considered the first extermination group in Rio de Janeiro and the most famous in Brazil.[4][5] In 2015, police officers using the name of the organization, under the name Associação Filantrópica Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq, carried out a pamphlet campaign to encourage the use of the hotline.[6][7]

History


The Scuderie Le Cocq was created to avenge the death on duty of Milton Le Cocq, a famous police detective from the state of Rio de Janeiro (formerly the Federal District), a member of Getúlio Vargas' personal guard and cousin of Brigadier Eduardo Gomes.[8] He was allegedly killed by Manoel Moreira, known as Cara de Cavalo, a criminal who operated in the Favela do Esqueleto in the 1960s, while protecting bankers from the animal gambling game so that their gambling points would not be stolen.[9][10] According to reports at the time, however, Cara de Cavalo did not react to the shots fired by Le Cocq and three other police officers, and the shot that killed the detective came from the very car he was in.[11]

The death mobilized several police officers who volunteered to participate in the investigations.[10] Cara de Cavalo was found and killed a few days later, with more than 50 gunshots.[10] Among the executioners were Luiz Mariano and José Guilherme Godinho Ferreira, known as Sivuca, who would later be elected state deputy for Rio de Janeiro, with the slogan "a good bandit is a dead bandit",[10] later supplemented by "and buried standing up, so as not to take up too much space".[5] The initials "E.M." in the coat of arms of the Scuderie Le Cocq stand for "Motorized Squad", a division of the Special Police to which detective Milton Le Cocq belonged when he was a member of the special police, and not the death squad.[10] The emblem of the Scuderie Le Cocq was a skull on top of crossbones.[10] With the extinction of the Special Police, Le Cocq, along with his colleagues Sivuca and Euclides, moved to the Civil Police.[10]

Twelve Golden Men

The association was led by the so-called "Twelve Golden Men",[12] who were twelve famous police officers chosen by the Secretary of Public Security of Rio de Janeiro, Luis França, to "clean up" the city and eliminate criminals, transvestites and homeless people.[5] The group was made up of the following civil police officers:

  1. Aníbal Beckman dos Santos, known as "Cartola"
  2. Elinto Pires[12]
  3. Euclides Nascimento Marinho
  4. Hélio Guahyba Nunes
  5. Humberto de Matos
  6. Jaime de Lima
  7. José Guilherme Godinho, known as Sivuca
  8. Lincoln Monteiro
  9. Mariel Mariscot
  10. Neils Kaufman, known as "Diabo Loiro"
  11. Nelson Duarte
  12. Vigmar Ribeiro

Other members

See also

References

  1. ^ "Justiça confirma extinção da Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq", Sherlock Holmes
  2. ^ "Camiseta de esquadrão da morte é vendida nos Jardins, em SP". Pavablogue. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  3. ^ "Justiça Federal determina extinção da Scuderie Le Cocq". Consultor Jurídico (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  4. ^ "Uma breve história de Ronnie Lessa, o acusado de matar Marielle". Época (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  5. ^ a b c "A polícia toma o poder". Piauí (in Brazilian Portuguese). UOL. Retrieved 2020-12-22 – via Folha.
  6. ^ "Extinta em 2000, Scuderie Le Cocq volta à cena panfletando para incentivar denúncias", O globo, Rio.
  7. ^ https://noticias.r7.com/brasil/le-cocq-gerou-o-esquadrao-da-morte-e-parcerias-com-os-bicheiros-do-rio-29062022/
  8. ^ "Dez Anos de Saudade". Opinião. Rio de Janeiro: Inúbia. 9 September 1974. Retrieved 2015-07-05 – via Biblioteca nacional.
  9. ^ Ventura, Zuenir (1994). Cidade Partida. Companhia das Letras. ISBN 978-85-7164403-8.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g Leitão, Alexandre (16 July 2014). "A Scuderie Le Coq". Revista da Biblioteca Nacional. Archived from the original on 2016-08-31. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  11. ^ 3. Bicho Solto (in European Portuguese), 2021-09-10, retrieved 2021-12-21 – via Spotify
  12. ^ a b Adepol RJ (11 September 2015). "A lenda dos doze homens de ouro". Retrieved 2024-06-24.
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