Press Arcigay - Just 11th World Day of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which by the murder of Rita Hester in Boston in 1998, recalls how they are deep and widespread prejudice and discrimination against transgender people, we learn that Brenda, transgender person involved in the rental Marrazzo, was found dead.
This coincidence should give pause to policy, the media, the public how they were humiliated in this period of transgender people, who unfortunately are forced in many cases, especially if non-Italian and without a permit, into prostitution.
whole story is tinged with dark colors of hours of pain and anger for those who, like the trans associations and homosexuals, all day trying to make people understand that, with a few simple legislative and social action, thousands of trans people may no longer live in the margins and a prey to criminal organizations.
We hope to be done soon light on this tragedy, that the prosecutors in Rome have registered as a murder.
The fact remains that Brenda is the next victim of an irresponsible spectacle of complex situations, handled as usual by the media to meet audience and sales of copies, which do not respect dignity, difficulties and personal histories marked by discrimination and violence of all kinds.
Aurelio Mancuso, president of National Arcigay
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ROME - An autopsy performed today on the body of Brenda, the trans was found dead yesterday in his apartment in Rome, confirmed that her death was' done by asphyxiation from carbon monoxide sprigionatosi in the fire broke out at his home. The TAC has also shown that the body of the trans there are no injuries. Continue reading this news
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mattress bed semibruciato as to make visible the springs. Next to a suitcase, while in the bottom left a staircase that leads to a loft. Cosi 'appears
the apartment of the transsexual Brenda, died yesterday in via Two Bridges, in Rome, where today there 'was a new survey of forensics and men of the squad of police. At the bottom of the apartment, also, is a wooden chair and a table on which there are some bottles. The signs most 'visible fire is concentrated in the area to the left of the entrance, in the small studio. Under the bed there seems to be an electric wire and a nearby pair of boots completely burned. The area of \u200b\u200bthe basin appears to be intact, so 'as the only window that is' closed. IN SEARCH OF THE CELL
BRENDA - Prosecutors investigating the death of Brenda are trying to find a second phone that transsexuals should possess. To suggest that the trans had another telephone are a few examples, which reveal that Brenda had more 'of a cell phone, and the theft of one of these devices on 8 November, during an attack. Yesterday, the spot investigation of internal via Two Bridges, investigators have searched for the alleged second phone even in garbage cans. The deputy prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo and substitute Rodolfo Sabelli await the results of technical analysis prepared on the computer found in a sink with the tap running and the completion of the finding of footprints in the studio. THE VIEW
Murder - It 's killing the argument most' likely behind the death of Brenda trans. This first conclusion arrived investigators Romans after the first investigations in this regard but there is' very confidential. Surely Brenda, whose real name was Wendell Mendes Paes, was alive at 2.30 last night. And 'one of the few certainties in the hands of investigators after
heard the taxi driver who took home the zone of Water trans Sorrel, where he had beaten up at home, in the Two Bridges, where he and 'was found charred. The man also told that the trans, when and 'came home, I was alone.
At the prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo and substitute Rodolfo Sabelli examine the evidence obtained in a scene that investigators themselves define''dubious'': the computer in the sink, the flames had destroyed only a duffel bag, the air conditioner and the materesso, Brenda spills on the floor, completely naked. In addition, the main entrance was closed with a mandate, and could not find traces of a struggle and other presences in the house. There would also be drugs or barbiturates. However, the judges will be back in a small studio for further inspection. If the person who put the computer under the jet Brenda tap water did hope to destroy the memory, has probably made a mistake. 'Cause even when wet, intelligence sources point out, and' can retrieve the contents of the hard disk: and it 's what the experts will do the next day, when the prosecution will have' decided who will have to 'run the technical surveys. The investigators took note of the evidence under which Brenda would not have wanted to disappear, they 'commit suicide (''he was afraid of life - someone said - not where the story was over'') have already' provided technical advice on computer to verify its contents.
same prosecutors are now being evaluated under a different guise the end of Gianguarino Cafasso, the pusher of transsexuals who gravitate to the area via Gradoli, who died in early September from an overdose. A square Clodius are expected in the next few days the final results of the autopsy findings and not 'impossible that even death can set up a hypothesis that homicidal ..
''They killed her, I do not know who. Was mentally ill, he wanted to return to Brazil now have to find who did this.'' To speak, visibly shaken, and 'Barbara, a Brazilian transsexual friend of Brenda. Yesterday''with Brenda we met in a parking lot, we drank a glass of Ballantyne's, then we left him at home watching television,''says Barbara. Trans Brazil also claimed that''it 'Police will' Police did nothing''explaining that''all trans inhabiting this area are at risk of death, we very much afraid of the Romanians.''
Brenda was involved last November 9 in a fight with some aliens from Eastern Europe took place in a street in Cassia. Brenda was found in the ground with a few bruises and a strong emotional state of alteration by a patrol of the police call from a passerby. The transsexual, who was drunk and shouting incoherent sentences, denouncing 'to be robbed of purse and mobile phone.
DI PIETRO: ACCORDING TO ME NOT 'MURDER, CAUTION -''As a former prosecutor and investigator I beg to differ with those who, in these hours, with a lot of superficiality' and timeliness ', has already' taken for granted that the transsexual is Brenda was killed''so 'Antonio Di Pietro, leader of IDV. Gia'''is sparking a run to identify the alleged murderer and the motive. But we are confident - we demand - that it is murder and not a tragicissima and personal history of alcohol, drugs and drugs that had 'dipped' the transsexual Brenda, and bring to a death caused by it? I make this appeal to be careful because 'I do not want that, once again, we look guilty even when they are not there. In this sense, the prosecutor's statement that he would let slip that it would be a murder, or it 's never actually been made, oe' was also untimely.''
friend: BRENDA PHOTO BUT WAS DESTROYED -''I know nothing about video, the maximum he could have the photographs, however, 'has thrown.'' And 'what you said China, the transsexual friend and neighbor of Brenda, the viado Marrazzo involved in the case and found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Via Due Ponti in Rome. China has also confirmed that, as far as I know, '''Brenda drank heavily and took drugs to sleep. That's' cause I think of an accident and not to have been killed.'' China has brought to the door of Brenda's a bunch of white daisies and has laid at the foot of the exit into tears. And then 'went to the supermarket to buy some candles, and' back in his home. Poor''Marrazzo, he had no guilt. And we too poor - added China - after the story had taken a certain direction, we were starting again quiet, but now after what has' happened ... Cursed be that day. However, I'm not afraid.'' Another transit, however, said he was very frightened:''A man, Italian - told - told me to shut up, not to speak. And once you and me on the street 'and a man approached a car window at me with his fingers the gesture of a gun.''
BARBARA: I DO NOT WANT TO DIE AS BRENDA -''I do not want to die like Brenda, I do not want its end.'' Said Barbara, a transsexual Via Due Ponti, during a press conference in Largo Sperlonga, a few hundred meters from where it 'was found dead on the cross involved in the case Marrazzo, organized by the President of Gayproject, Imma Battaglia, and the president of the Dragonfly for the rights of transsexuals, Leila Daianis. ''I'm afraid - he continued - yesterday there was a person on a motorbike who was waiting for me, I do not know if it was perhaps a policeman, but I ran away away and I got on a bus. Now we ask, and 'protection. We are treated like monsters and no longer work'''. Asked if he knew the pusher Gianguarino Capasso, Barbara said through tears,''Everyone knew.''
NATALIE: NOT SCARED, MAYBE IN VIDEO IN PC BRENDA -''I'm quiet. I'm not afraid 'cause I have not done anything.'' The transsexual said Natali ', Marrazzo involved in the affair, leaving his home on Via Gradoli in Rome. ''I was not friends with Brenda - he added - I've never known. I do not know if they killed.'' When asked if he was going to the police station, the trans responded''no. I am going to my lawyer.'' If I think of suicide Brenda? I do not know. If it 's happened and what' happened to her, can 'be that it is' cause he did something. I can not say. No one knows the truth 'and I can not say one thing that I do not know.'' And 'as transsexual Natalie said in an interview of 13 to TG2 on the death of viado involved in the case Marrazzo. It can'''be that you and' killed, it can 'be that someone ... - And is 'broken - but this is not' one thing that concerns me, I had nothing to do, we need to see the report.'' Asked by a reporter if he had seen the second or less video Marrazzo, Natalie said no:''I did not see, are things that are said to be around, but 'no one knows the truth'. If the second video was Brenda on the computer? What they say about it'''. Two dead, however, 'are something a bit' strange, suggests the reporter:''Strange and 'strange - he added - but' I can not say ... It 's not that I have friendly relations with those ... who live in the 'above, are here, I know some of my fellow countrymen. I'm really sorry because 'what is' success does not wish it on anyone. I'm not friends with her, I know why 'and' my fellow countrymen. If she gets drunk the first time as they told the newspapers when the police took it and 'its a private thing. If you take drugs, or if she 's sick things are his. To me I do not care - he concluded away from the cameras - I care about myself.'' (ANSA)
ROME - An autopsy performed today on the body of Brenda, the trans was found dead yesterday in his apartment in Rome, confirmed that her death was' done by asphyxiation from carbon monoxide sprigionatosi in the fire broke out at his home. The TAC has also shown that the body of the trans there are no injuries. Continue reading this news
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mattress bed semibruciato as to make visible the springs. Next to a suitcase, while in the bottom left a staircase that leads to a loft. Cosi 'appears
the apartment of the transsexual Brenda, died yesterday in via Two Bridges, in Rome, where today there 'was a new survey of forensics and men of the squad of police. At the bottom of the apartment, also, is a wooden chair and a table on which there are some bottles. The signs most 'visible fire is concentrated in the area to the left of the entrance, in the small studio. Under the bed there seems to be an electric wire and a nearby pair of boots completely burned. The area of \u200b\u200bthe basin appears to be intact, so 'as the only window that is' closed. IN SEARCH OF THE CELL BRENDA - Prosecutors investigating the death of Brenda are trying to find a second phone that transsexuals should possess. To suggest that the trans had another telephone are a few examples, which reveal that Brenda had more 'of a cell phone, and the theft of one of these devices on 8 November, during an attack. Yesterday, the spot investigation of internal via Two Bridges, investigators have searched for the alleged second phone even in garbage cans. The deputy prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo and substitute Rodolfo Sabelli await the results of technical analysis prepared on the computer found in a sink with the tap running and the completion of the finding of footprints in the studio. THE VIEW
Murder - It 's killing the argument most' likely behind the death of Brenda trans. This first conclusion arrived investigators Romans after the first investigations in this regard but there is' very confidential. Surely Brenda, whose real name was Wendell Mendes Paes, was alive at 2.30 last night. And 'one of the few certainties in the hands of investigators after
heard the taxi driver who took home the zone of Water trans Sorrel, where he had beaten up at home, in the Two Bridges, where he and 'was found charred. The man also told that the trans, when and 'came home, I was alone. At the prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo and substitute Rodolfo Sabelli examine the evidence obtained in a scene that investigators themselves define''dubious'': the computer in the sink, the flames had destroyed only a duffel bag, the air conditioner and the materesso, Brenda spills on the floor, completely naked. In addition, the main entrance was closed with a mandate, and could not find traces of a struggle and other presences in the house. There would also be drugs or barbiturates. However, the judges will be back in a small studio for further inspection. If the person who put the computer under the jet Brenda tap water did hope to destroy the memory, has probably made a mistake. 'Cause even when wet, intelligence sources point out, and' can retrieve the contents of the hard disk: and it 's what the experts will do the next day, when the prosecution will have' decided who will have to 'run the technical surveys. The investigators took note of the evidence under which Brenda would not have wanted to disappear, they 'commit suicide (''he was afraid of life - someone said - not where the story was over'') have already' provided technical advice on computer to verify its contents.
same prosecutors are now being evaluated under a different guise the end of Gianguarino Cafasso, the pusher of transsexuals who gravitate to the area via Gradoli, who died in early September from an overdose. A square Clodius are expected in the next few days the final results of the autopsy findings and not 'impossible that even death can set up a hypothesis that homicidal ..
''They killed her, I do not know who. Was mentally ill, he wanted to return to Brazil now have to find who did this.'' To speak, visibly shaken, and 'Barbara, a Brazilian transsexual friend of Brenda. Yesterday''with Brenda we met in a parking lot, we drank a glass of Ballantyne's, then we left him at home watching television,''says Barbara. Trans Brazil also claimed that''it 'Police will' Police did nothing''explaining that''all trans inhabiting this area are at risk of death, we very much afraid of the Romanians.''
Brenda was involved last November 9 in a fight with some aliens from Eastern Europe took place in a street in Cassia. Brenda was found in the ground with a few bruises and a strong emotional state of alteration by a patrol of the police call from a passerby. The transsexual, who was drunk and shouting incoherent sentences, denouncing 'to be robbed of purse and mobile phone.
DI PIETRO: ACCORDING TO ME NOT 'MURDER, CAUTION -''As a former prosecutor and investigator I beg to differ with those who, in these hours, with a lot of superficiality' and timeliness ', has already' taken for granted that the transsexual is Brenda was killed''so 'Antonio Di Pietro, leader of IDV. Gia'''is sparking a run to identify the alleged murderer and the motive. But we are confident - we demand - that it is murder and not a tragicissima and personal history of alcohol, drugs and drugs that had 'dipped' the transsexual Brenda, and bring to a death caused by it? I make this appeal to be careful because 'I do not want that, once again, we look guilty even when they are not there. In this sense, the prosecutor's statement that he would let slip that it would be a murder, or it 's never actually been made, oe' was also untimely.''
friend: BRENDA PHOTO BUT WAS DESTROYED -''I know nothing about video, the maximum he could have the photographs, however, 'has thrown.'' And 'what you said China, the transsexual friend and neighbor of Brenda, the viado Marrazzo involved in the case and found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Via Due Ponti in Rome. China has also confirmed that, as far as I know, '''Brenda drank heavily and took drugs to sleep. That's' cause I think of an accident and not to have been killed.'' China has brought to the door of Brenda's a bunch of white daisies and has laid at the foot of the exit into tears. And then 'went to the supermarket to buy some candles, and' back in his home. Poor''Marrazzo, he had no guilt. And we too poor - added China - after the story had taken a certain direction, we were starting again quiet, but now after what has' happened ... Cursed be that day. However, I'm not afraid.'' Another transit, however, said he was very frightened:''A man, Italian - told - told me to shut up, not to speak. And once you and me on the street 'and a man approached a car window at me with his fingers the gesture of a gun.''
BARBARA: I DO NOT WANT TO DIE AS BRENDA -''I do not want to die like Brenda, I do not want its end.'' Said Barbara, a transsexual Via Due Ponti, during a press conference in Largo Sperlonga, a few hundred meters from where it 'was found dead on the cross involved in the case Marrazzo, organized by the President of Gayproject, Imma Battaglia, and the president of the Dragonfly for the rights of transsexuals, Leila Daianis. ''I'm afraid - he continued - yesterday there was a person on a motorbike who was waiting for me, I do not know if it was perhaps a policeman, but I ran away away and I got on a bus. Now we ask, and 'protection. We are treated like monsters and no longer work'''. Asked if he knew the pusher Gianguarino Capasso, Barbara said through tears,''Everyone knew.''
NATALIE: NOT SCARED, MAYBE IN VIDEO IN PC BRENDA -''I'm quiet. I'm not afraid 'cause I have not done anything.'' The transsexual said Natali ', Marrazzo involved in the affair, leaving his home on Via Gradoli in Rome. ''I was not friends with Brenda - he added - I've never known. I do not know if they killed.'' When asked if he was going to the police station, the trans responded''no. I am going to my lawyer.'' If I think of suicide Brenda? I do not know. If it 's happened and what' happened to her, can 'be that it is' cause he did something. I can not say. No one knows the truth 'and I can not say one thing that I do not know.'' And 'as transsexual Natalie said in an interview of 13 to TG2 on the death of viado involved in the case Marrazzo. It can'''be that you and' killed, it can 'be that someone ... - And is 'broken - but this is not' one thing that concerns me, I had nothing to do, we need to see the report.'' Asked by a reporter if he had seen the second or less video Marrazzo, Natalie said no:''I did not see, are things that are said to be around, but 'no one knows the truth'. If the second video was Brenda on the computer? What they say about it'''. Two dead, however, 'are something a bit' strange, suggests the reporter:''Strange and 'strange - he added - but' I can not say ... It 's not that I have friendly relations with those ... who live in the 'above, are here, I know some of my fellow countrymen. I'm really sorry because 'what is' success does not wish it on anyone. I'm not friends with her, I know why 'and' my fellow countrymen. If she gets drunk the first time as they told the newspapers when the police took it and 'its a private thing. If you take drugs, or if she 's sick things are his. To me I do not care - he concluded away from the cameras - I care about myself.'' (ANSA)
