El cas també s'ha comparat d'Amarildo, el paleta que va ser torturat i mort, i el seu cos "segrestat" per la policia militar a la favela de Rocinha, també a Rio de Janeiro, el juliol de 2013.
The case was also compared to that of Amarildo, a stone worker who was tortured, killed, and his body "disappeared" by the military police in the favela Rocinha, also in Rio de Janeiro, in July 2013.