Deputy from Espírito Santo State Uses Tribune to ‘Order’ Crime and Offer Reward

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – State Deputy Captain Assunção (PSL) offered R$10,000 (US$2,500) to anyone who kills the person responsible for the murder by gunshot at dawn on Thursday, September 12th, of a 25-year-old woman in front of her daughter, in Cariacica, Espírito Santo.

“I want to see who is going to run after this bum to arrest him,” he said, pointing to a photo of the murdered woman reproduced on the big screen of the Legislative Assembly of Espírito Santo (ALES) on the very same day of the murder.

“Ten thousand Reais from my own pocket for anyone who orders the killing of this bum. He doesn’t deserve to be alive, no.”

On Thursday, he posted a video on his social media in response to the repercussions of his speech during the assembly session. “Half a dozen whiners are hurt because I put R$ 10,000 on the head of a thug. He killed a young woman and doesn’t deserve to be alive,” he said.

In the video, he refers to threats he claims to have received. “I gave that statement and the bums said they’d be coming for me. Here’s what’s waiting for you, bum,” he says as he pulls out a revolver from his waist. “Come on, come.”

For the lawyer Ariel de Castro Alves, a specialist in Human Rights and Public Safety, the deputy’s behavior is “criminal” and constitutes the practice of public incitement to crimes, provided for in the criminal code, punishable by six months of detention, plus a fine.

“He is inciting exterminations and lynchings. If someone commits the assassination because of this incentive, because of the incitement, the deputy may be held accountable for the murder as its instigator. The instigator is also accountable, along with the executioner,” he said. “He is preaching barbarity, revenge, the ‘eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’, which is a total breakdown of legislative decorum; he should suffer the loss of parliamentary mandate,” he explains.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Espírito Santo (MP-ES) said it “is examining the content of the deputy’s statements for future consideration”. Flávia Brandão, director of Human Rights of the regional section of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-ES) considered the declarations “a serious setback”.

Source: O Estado de S. Paulo.