FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a graffiti in tribute of late councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes, murdered last year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top public prosecutor on Tuesday ordered five people indicted over sabotaging efforts to investigate the assassination of a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, and said federal investigators would take over the case.
In comments to reporters on her last day in office, Brazil's prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, said she would charge two court officials, two police officers and a lawyer with obstructing investigations into the March 2018 slaying of Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes.
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