• Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

    Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide
    José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was fakedAs campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October when, on the eve of the local election, an armoured vehicle carrying José

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