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Haddad Presents Forensic Report and Challenges Tarcísio Government’s Account of Driver Stop

From Folha de S.Paulo · () Portuguese

Translated from Portuguese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Fernando Haddad’s campaign presented a forensic report arguing that a police vehicle stopped near his driver, despite security footage not showing the alleged stop itself.
  • The state security department said it reviewed footage from about 40 private cameras and found a vehicle passing without stopping.
  • Haddad cited an electoral prosecutor’s finding that the timing and deployment of two patrols weakened the police account of a coincidental encounter.

Fernando Haddad’s campaign has challenged the São Paulo government’s account of an alleged police intimidation incident involving his driver, presenting a forensic report focused on what nearby cameras captured.

The driver, Alessandro Caseri, said military police stopped him on Aug. 11 near the Pullman Hotel in Vila Mariana after he dropped Haddad at home in the city’s southern zone. Footage released by the state Public Security Secretariat showed a patrol vehicle passing the driver’s car at the stated time and place without stopping. The department said it examined recordings from about 40 private cameras along the route described by Caseri.

The report commissioned by Haddad’s campaign examined four cameras at businesses near the hotel. None recorded the alleged stop, but the campaign said the footage showed a 20-minute period in which a patrol vehicle remained in the area and an officer moved along the street. Two court-appointed experts signed the report on Aug. 28 and concluded that the vehicle may have stopped outside the field of view of some cameras.

The claim that the patrol vehicle did not stop in front of the hotel has been completely disproved. It is fully recorded in the case file.

— Fernando HaddadHaddad used the statement to dispute the São Paulo government’s interpretation of the security footage.

Haddad said the claim that the patrol vehicle did not stop in front of the hotel had been completely disproved. His lawyer, Thiago Rocha, said three patrol vehicles passed the driver, including one near Haddad’s home and two near the hotel. Rocha said the second vehicle stopped in front of Caseri, after which three officers got out and told him to leave.

The report also identified an officer carrying a lit flashlight on the hotel street while Caseri was parked there. Haddad cited an electoral prosecutor’s opinion saying the close timing of two tactical deployments, involving units that did not conduct routine emergency patrols, weakened the police force’s explanation that the events were regular and coincidental.

The first vehicle near the hotel, arriving about 20 minutes after Alessandro arrived, parked a car in front of him. Then, according to Alessandro’s own account, three police officers got out, stopped at the rear door and said, ‘Get out of here.’

— Thiago RochaHaddad’s lawyer described the alleged encounter involving the driver.
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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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