On this Tuesday (27) alone, four episodes of political violence against campaigners and supporters of leftist candidates were recorded in the country. The cases occurred in the city of Curitiba (Paraná state), Osasco (São Paulo state), Manaus (Amazonas state), and João Pessoa (Paraíba state).
Doctor and Bolsonaro supporter threatens to shoot a Workers’ Party campaigner during leafleting
This Tuesday afternoon, a doctor and Bolsonaro supporter threatened to shoot in the face a member of Carol Dartora's campaign, who is running for federal deputy in the city of Curitiba, south of Brazil.
According to the police report filed by Workers’ Party campaigners at the 1st Civil Police District of Paraná state, the campaigner had supposedly handed a leaflet of Dartora’s campaign to the doctor and Bolsonaro supporter Ricardo Rosa in downtown Curitiba, Paraná’s capital city.
Rosa responded that he would shoot her in the face and split on the faces of the other Workers' Party campaigners who were in the area. After that, he headed to a tent of Jair Bolsonaro's campaign. Asked about his name, the man supposedly replied, "Bolsonaro". Later, Rosa was taken to the police station by the Municipal Guard.
Haddad's coordinator committee in São Paulo is attacked, and a supporter is beaten
The campaign committee of state deputy Emídio de Souza (Workers’ Party, São Paulo state), who is running for reelection, was assaulted this Tuesday (27) around midday. He is also the campaign coordinator of Fernando Haddad's (Workers' Party) campaign for governor of São Paulo state.
According to the parliamentarian, a man who identified himself as a Bolsonaro supporter stormed the place in Osasco (São Paulo state), southeast of Brazil. He destroyed campaign materials and beat a Workers’ Part campaigner who was there at the moment. The woman filed a police report. The attacker got away.
Destroyed campaign material in Emídio de Souza’s campaign committee. Image: Reproduction/Twitter.
An adviser to a Workers' Party legislator was assaulted by a Bolsonaro supporter
A campaigner for federal deputy Zé Ricardo (Workers’ Party, Amazonas state), who is running for reelection, was allegedly hit with an iron bar in the head by a supposedly Bolsonaro supporter in Manaus, north of Brazil. The case was filed in the 19th Civil Police District.
A worker dressed in a Lula t-shirt faced an assault attempt in Paraíba state
A man attending a motorcade in support of Bolsonaro in the city of João Pessoa, northeast of Brazil, tried to beat kitchen assistant Cláudia S. in front of the restaurant where she works. The victim, who was wearing a t-shirt in support of Lula, says that she was having a break and watching the motorcade, waving to the president’s supporters, when she was startled by a man walking towards her.
The victim said she will not file a report. The attacker is still unknown.
Other cases
Besides the most recent cases of violence, other such acts presented some unfoldings this Tuesday:
A Workers’ Party supporter died after being stabbed 70 times by a Bolsonaro supporter
An autopsy conducted by the Civil Police of Mato Grosso state, in the central region of the country, concluded Workers' Party supporter Benedito Cardoso dos Santos was stabbed 70 times (with a knife and an axe) by Bolsonaro supporter Rafael Silva de Oliveira on the evening of September 7 in Confessa, 1,160km from Mato Grosso capital city. Oliveira was arrested hours after the killing.
In his testimony, Oliveira confessed he stabbed dos Santos 15 times using a knife / Photo: Divulgación
The medical report by Politec (Official Inspection and Technical Identification) said that most of the injuries were in the head and neck. Oliveira also tried to “decapitate the victim with an axe”.
Boulos demands the identification of military police officers who tried to arrest him
Federal deputy candidate Guilherme Boulos (PSOL, São Paulo state) demanded the military police’s internal affairs office open an inquiry to identify the police officers that tried to arrest him last Sunday (25).
The arrest attempt happened after an argument between PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) campaigners and Free Brazil Movement (MBL, in Portuguese) campaigners. A MBL campaigner was allegedly attacked by PSOL campaigners after annoying Guilherme Boulos during a campaign activity in Paulista Avenue, downtown the city of São Paulo.
Guilherme Boulos / Photo: Carol Lima
During the incident, the MBL campaigner walked toward police officers and accused Boulos of assault. Then, police officers tried to take Boulos to the police station. In the 4th Police District in Consolação, a police report was filed to deny that Boulos had assaulted the young man.
According to Boulos account on social media, police officers had allegedly tried to take him forcefully to a police station as a way to intimidate him. However, they were prevented from doing so by criminal lawyers who were there too. According to article 236 of Brazil’s Electoral Code, candidates for elective positions cannot be arrested in the 15 days before the election day.
Edited by: Thalita Pires e Flávia Chacon
