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São Paulo: Recent Gang Violence in São Paulo
	05/18/06 01:26 PM \| 0 Brownie Points \| Neumanne: rumormongers helped spread panic
BrazilMax Moderator 365 Posts 3 Brownie Points São Paulo	The PCC gangsters “took advantage of the complicity of rumormongers to spread panic” in São Paulo on Monday, wrote São Paulo-based journalist Jose Neumanne Pinto in a column published in today's Jornal da Paraíba. Neumanne also writes for the Estado de São Paulo and Jornal da Tarde – as well as, of course, BrazilMax. In “the Battle of São Paulo,” as Neumanne calls it, certain opinion leaders helped the bandidos paralyze the city. Shop owners who closed their doors and bus company owners who kept their vehicles in their garages also fueled the climate of fear. Neumanne cited the example Catholic University (PUC) law professor Pedro Estevão who helped exacerbate the crisis by calling for a “state of emergency.” Concludes the columnist: “These rumormongers didn't kill anybody, but they deserve to be denounced for their cowardice.”
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