The plateau city is experiencing a moment of anguish with the death, earlier this afternoon, 24, of the Mayor of Santa Catarina de Santiago, Beto Alves, who was under intensive care at the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto, in Praia, according to information provided by the Management of this health establishment. The mayor had been in intensive care at this central hospital after being found on Tuesday 22, shot on the balcony of his residence in the city of Assomada. A tragedy that is causing great consternation to the local population and Cape Verde in general.
The President of the Municipality of Santa Catarina, “Beto Alves”, as he was popularly known, just died on Thursday afternoon at the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto, in Praia. The information was advanced by the Clinical Director of the same Hospital, Vitor Costa, in statements to the media.
With this official communication, the false information advanced to the press yesterday by the Communication and Image Office of the Chamber is finally rectified, according to which Beto Alves died on Wednesday night.
As Asemanaonline learned, the tragic news of Beto Alves’ death was received with dismay by the residents of Santa Catarina, as well as by the population of Santiago and Cape Verde in general.
According to Inforpress, the president of the National Association of Municipalities of Cape Verde (ANMCV), Herménio Fernandes, expressed today, 24, “deep regret and immense dismay” at the death of José Alves Fernandes, president of the Municipality of Santa Catarina de Santiago.
In a post made on his Facebook page, Herménio Fernandes recalls the mayor as “a public servant of honor, who honors Santa Catarina and her people and all Cape Verdeans, to whom at this moment, words are insufficient to describe the his dedication, dedication and struggle for a Santa Catarina “Riba la” and a better Cape Verde ”.
“His death represents an irreparable loss of a politician at his peak, with so many dreams for life, for his municipality and for our country,” he said.
In this hour of “pain and great shock” for all, as president of the ANMCV, Herménio Fernandes addressed his “most heartfelt condolences” to family, friends, the people of Santa Catarina and everyone who had the privilege of one day living with the “Eternal” Beto Alves.
“I join everyone in prayer that God will comfort us, at this moment, from unbearable pain”, he concluded according to Inforpress.
False information and resignation of the coordinator of the Press Office
With this communication today from the Clinical Director of Hospital Agostinho Neto, the false information advanced to the press yesterday by the Communication and Image Office of the Chamber is officially and clinically rectified, according to which Beto Alves died on Wednesday night, 23 .
However, the city council soon recognized the serious mistake made, through a new press release distributed to the press. “An unfortunate mistake, resulting from a serious communication error between institutions, precipitated our communication about the death of President Beto Alves. Fortunately for all of us, the Mayor of Santa Catarina is still (last night) connected to the machines, so the death has not been declared “, rectified the Chamber through a referred note.
In the face of this false information distributed to the media, the coordinator of the Communication and Image Office requested, last night, the resignation of the position he had been exercising. “I argue that responsibility has a face, so, as coordinator of the Communication and Image Office of the Municipality of Santa Catarina, I have just presented my resignation to Ms. Acting President, Jassira Monteiro. The hectic times we are experiencing and the consternation that took care of each one of us in the last few days, they do not justify such a serious fault! I deeply regret all the inconveniences caused, in particular to Santacatarinenses and the family and friends of President Beto Alves “, explained, with a sense of dignity, António Alte Pinho , who is a journalist with extensive experience and who maintained a good institutional relationship with the newspaper A Semana.
How the tragedy happened
José Alves Fernandes, 44 years old, mayor re-elected in the October 25 elections, has been in intensive care at Praia’s central hospital since the dawn of Tuesday, 22. This after being transferred from the Regional Hospital Santa Rita Vieira, from Santa Catarina, to the capital, for having been found shot on the balcony of his residence in the city of Assomada.
On Tuesday, the clinical director of Hospital Agostinho Neto, Victor Costa, had considered that the mayor is in a very critical state, at the risk of his life, but that the hospital services would be working in an attempt to “reverse this situation very worrisome”.
The mayor of Santa Catarina, confirmed the clinician, suffered an injury by a firearm in the left temporal region, which caused him a “severe traumatic brain injury” and which, according to observed signs, “the shot would have been done at a very short distance ”.
Axial Computed Tomography (CAT) performed at the private clinic Cardiomedic, according to Victor Costa, “confirmed this injury with a firearm with fractures and also with intraparentematous injuries, therefore at the level of the brain, with hemorrhages that becomes a very reserved situation and prognosis very reserved for the patient’s life ”.
House against suicide thesis
The Judiciary Police, in turn, pointed out in a press release, for indications of the suicide attempt, after preliminary steps and information collected at the scene, promising, however, to continue with the investigations.
However, in a statement sent to the press, the Municipality of Santa Catarina considered this hypothesis advanced by the PJ to be rash, warning that “the story is poorly told”. The City Council asked the Attorney General’s Office and the Central Directorate of the PJ to endeavor to fully clarify what may have caused Edil Beto Alves’ death.
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