Stories of Paraná - Pato Branco Mustang

Stories of Paraná - Pato Branco Mustang

Pato Branco Mustang
Fatima Maria Bortot

Year 1949. Pato Branco, Paraná Southwest, had no more than a thousand inhabitants.
Waves of migrants arrived from far places, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, mostly.
A new frontier was opening.
Little luggage, very dreams.
That's what happened to two families from Porto Union
Couples still young, settled on a farm, away from the village center.
Other bands, also landed in Pato Branco a guy who worked in a sawmill in the village then called Bonita.
Their stories would intersect dramatically. And bloody.
That day he left work and went to the farm.
Upon returning home, leaves two dead bodies in their wake: a woman and the head of another family.
"Your" Ormazinho Viganò, do not know how, suspicious. The author of the barbaric crime would be the guy.
That night, Viganò, the delegate Chico Bortot God and Abel, who had a 46 Dodge, and more crowded the two policemen at the station, went on expeditions to the sawmill. The boy slept.
When it was agreed, in a shack, was under arrest delegate.
With him were found objects and clothes of the victims property.
Tied with rope on her wrists and legs, was taken to the police station. The day was dawning and the sun spots appeared in premonition, blood bathing the horizon.
Clear day, everyone in town knew little of what had happened and where he was.
In jail, the same place where today is installed Bedim Hotel, the tension grew.
Disagreeing with the double murder, the mob went to the sheriff Chico God.
They wanted justice.
With his own hands. Were unsuccessful.
They returned home, but the rebellion persisted, brewing.
Hours later, they returned to the police station.
Chico were informed by God that the boy would be transferred to the chain Clevelândia, headquarters of the district, which offered more security.
Like today, the police lacked structure. The delegate used a "cab". In the car followed the driver, one of the officers and arrested, handcuffed.
But 400 meters from the police station, near where is now the building of the White Brazil, at Avenida Tupi, a group of people waiting.
Were many, brandishing sticks, knives and guns. The prisoner was torn from the taxi and lynched.
A photographer recorded the whole scene.
On the front line, in the photo appear older residents that Pato Branco bravia, almost lawless and soul.
If everyone participated in the lynching, no one knows, but posed for the photographer many pioneers, now heads of illustrious families of the city.
- This ear will take home, come to comment after the blow from a machete, the brother of the murdered woman.
Two months later, there is a truck in the city, crowded with soldiers of the Military Police, under the command of Lieutenant delegate Lapa, moved to Curitiba.
Began investigations, from the photo.
Interrogations.
Testify, one by one, members of photography.
Those who tell the truth, after all explicit in the photo, were released.
Those who refused to participate, led a "tunda loop" before being set free.
Nobody paid bills justice.
Entire population at the end of the survey, was unarmed. And, it is said to this day, the police returned to Curitiba with a second truck, loaded with weapons.
In a workshop, the police seized some of the many handguns.
Lynching was the only city ever recorded in the memory of old residents, as "their" Sunday Bortot, he saw a city born in the remote countryside, where, in fact, life was dangerous.

Fatima Mirian Bortot, journalist


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.