Court orders that family of PM and former Olympic judoka Mário Sabino receive compensation of R$200,000

Body of Mário Sabino, former Olympic judoka, is buried in Bauru Reproduction/TV TEM The Court ordered the Public Treasury of the State of São Paulo to pay compensation of R$200,000 to the family of former Olympic judoka and Military Police corporal Mário Sabino Júnior, who was shot dead in 2019, in Bauru (SP). The amount set by the Special Public Treasury Court must be increased by interest and monetary correction. There is an appeal. In the process, the State argued that the police officer was killed due to "passionate motivation", which would nullify the right to the benefit. However, judge Fernanda Lopes dos Santos rejected the justification and highlighted that the corporal was on duty at the time of his death. ? Join the g1 Bauru and Marília channel on WhatsApp “Thus, the fact that the homicide was personally motivated does not, in itself, rule out the incidence of item I of article 2 of State Law No. 14,984/2013, since it remains undisputed that the soldier was on duty at the time of the fatal event,” says the judge. Body of Mário Sabino, former Olympic judoka, is buried in Bauru The judge also highlighted that there is no proof that Sabino committed any crime or administrative infraction during the episode that ended in his death. In a statement, the defense of the police officer's family states that the decision represents justice being done and support for Sabino's family. “São Paulo legislation is clear in providing for compensation protection for civil servants who die while performing public military service, and any attempt to mitigate this right based on restrictive extra-legal interpretations is unreasonable”, declared lawyer Joice Vanessa dos Santos. On TV TEM, the Attorney General of the State of São Paulo stated that the state government has not yet been notified about the decision. Former judoka and PM died in Bauru and investigation stated that there was evidence of an exchange of gunfire between the agents Personal archive/Disclosure Understand the case Mário Sabino Júnior and fellow military police officer Agnaldo Rodrigues died from gunshots in October 2019. A military investigation, concluded in 2020, showed evidence that there was an exchange of gunfire between the agents. The bodies of the police officers were found during a patrol in Jardim Niceia. Rodrigues' wife, Corporal Águida Barbosa, was at the scene and was later heard by the Military Court. She was not injured and a report confirmed that she did not fire any shots. Prosecutor João Henrique Ferreira, who followed the case, said at the time that the police officers' weapons had been fired. Rodrigues was a sergeant and worked for the PM for 30 years. In addition to his wife, he left a son, who was 22 years old at the time. As a judoka, Sabino had represented Brazil in two editions of the Olympic Games, in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004). He also served as assistant coach for the Brazilian Judo Team at the London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016) Olympics. In 2019, a former judoka was found dead on the street in Jardim Niceia, in Bauru Romeu Neto/TV TEM See more news from the region on g1 Bauru and Marília. VIDEOS: watch reports from the region