Rio's Police arrested on Monday two Brazilians and an Englishman, who drew the mascot of the Pan American Games holding a rifle on a wall downtown the city.
The graffiti showed Caue, a mascot in the shape of a sun designed especially for the Games, holding an AK-47 as if it was pointing at a target.
The Brazilian students Julio de Franca, 20, and Leandro da Silva, 22, and the UK filmmaker Ben Ronen, 24, were arrested when they were spraying the pictures on the wall of a public school, with the aid of a stencil.
The group said that the drawings were a sign of protest against the way the government has been dealing with the public security issue.
De Franca and Da Silva were released after signing a term of commitment determining that they will show up in court when they get called. Ronen was taken to the Federal Police Superintendence, where agents acknowledged that he has been in Brazil since June 22, when he got a tourist visa to stay in the country.
According to the Police, Ronen has been involved in other political rallies in different places around the world, such as Palestine, where he was charged with attacking soldiers and was arrested for four days.
On July 10, three days to the beginning of the Pan Am Games in Rio, other graffitists made a similar drawing on a wall near the Maracana Stadium, where the opening ceremony took place.
Source: Xinhua
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