Talíria Petrone, deputy of the Socialism and Freedom Party (Psol) for Rio de Janeiro, published on her Twitter account on Monday a message she received by email, which includes racist insults and death threats. The leader reported that in recent days other women received similar messages: Carol Dartora, feminist activist and first black mayor of Curitiba, of the Workers’ Party (PT); Ana Lúcia Martins, the first black mayor of Joinville, also from the PT; Duda Salabert, first trans woman edila of Belo Horizonte, of the Democratic Labor Party. Added to them is Suéllen Rosin, also an Afro-descendant, elected mayor of Baurú, in San Pablo and a member of the Patriota party.
The author of the threat addresses each of them as “His aberration”, and then adds racist or transphobic insults. In the case of Salabert, who is a teacher, the author of the threat says that when the schools open he will enter his class and will kill all the “bitches” and the “blacks, who unfortunately will be very few)”, and that later he will kill her. More or less the same says in his message to Martins, who is also a teacher.
This Monday Petrone posted the email he received on Twitter. The author tells him that while she “earns a deputy salary just for being an ape,” he is unemployed, his wife has breast cancer, and the two are living off an aid paid by the state. “I swear that if you don’t resign from the mandate, I will buy a pistol at Morro do Engenho, here in Rio de Janeiro, and I will kill you. I already have all your data and I am going to appear at your house or your office, “he threatened. “I’m going to kill you the same way my group killed Marielle [Franco]. We killed Marielle. The traffickers of the Comando Vermelho de Mar do Engenho are with me ”, he adds.
The threat that Petrone received is signed by Ricardo Wagner Arouxa, but according to the Brazilian press it is a false identity. According to CNN, last week the police identified one of the authors of the message addressed to Rosim. The man was accused of misrepresenting his identity and racial slurs, and investigations into the death threat continue.
“Nothing causes more fear of the elite and racist structures than when black women, trans women, feminists, workers mobilize,” said Petrone, who had already turned to the United Nations for other death threats. He considered that this is a “coordinated action”, adding: “They will not intimidate us.”
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