“My life and the lives of so many black people in this country are not treated as living lives,” lamented de Jess, quoted by the Brasil de Fatto Portal.
In a message to an undisclosed email address, the attacker wrote on September 15: “We are going to eliminate you.”
He said he was tired of his attacks on the mining family. “That’s why we’re going to remove it. It’ll be with shots in the buttocks and back, because traitors deserve it. You won’t even notice what hit you. Your days are numbered and your end is a matter of time. Too much Short time. Marielle is waiting for you, Ustra lives! Jungle!” The attacker commented.
The site indicates that the tormenting brillant razor is common among supporters of far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, usually paying tribute to an ex-military man accused of various crimes during the military dictatorship (1964–1985), who died on 15 October 2015.
In this regard, the deputy said on social networks that it was a happy day to reunite with former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the candidate for power for the Workers’ Party (PT) and the mining town of Montes Claros. been shortened.
He said that his team took legal action to trace the threat.
“Every day we fight for the guarantee of human rights. I know I am not alone in this fight! I am Marielle Franco’s seed, I flourish, I strengthen myself every day and will not allow myself to be hindered, ”he insisted.
Since late last year, a member of the PT, the MP, has faced death threats.
Brasil de Fato explains that the attacks began when the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais charged it with investigating a police operation in the Varginha municipality, south of the territorial division, that killed 26 people. ,
The murder in Rio de Janeiro of Franco, a black councilor and human rights defender, continues more than four years after the crime was committed, and the intellectual author of the crime is unknown.
Socialism and Liberty Party’s Franco and his driver Anderson Gomes were murdered in a central area of Rio on the night of March 14, 2018.
Thirteen shots from a high-precision HK MP5 submachine gun, used only by elite police forces, hit the vehicle in which they were traveling.
The families of both claim that they have lost hope of clarifying the crime.
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