Civil Police investigate racist messages against black mayor elected in Bauru | Elections 2020 in Bauru and Marília – SP

The messages were disseminated in a WhatsApp group and reached her, who registered a police report after the second round on Sunday (29).

According to delegate Eduardo Herrera dos Santos, the case is being investigated as a racial insult. The suspects have not yet been identified.

“We will listen to the elected mayor in the next few days, we will hold meetings and collect documents,” explained the delegate.

In one of the excerpts from the message posted on the group, the aggressor says “we cannot elect that woman with a favela face to be our mayor. This gentinha will sink Bauru ”.

In another message, he says: “I have nothing against it, but these dark-skinned, marginal-faced people run this city, it will be the end.”

The racist content also appears in another message: “These people of color, represented by this Suéllen, will not know how to run the city, they have no competition.”

Suéllen informed the G1 and to TEM TV that he learned of the attacks from people close to him who sent copies of the messages and that his lawyer is already taking the necessary measures to ensure that the perpetrator is identified and punished.

“I was alerted to the situation and of course Sunday was an unusual election day and I wanted to think very calmly, but I registered a police report and the lawyer is already on the case to take all necessary measures.”

“Living something like this, we are very upset, but I want to set an example, we cannot let this type of situation go by, we cannot think that this is common, simple and acceptable. Many people go through this and are silenced ”.

The elected mayor also said that with this attitude she intends to prevent situations like this from continuing to occur.

“We have taken all possible legal measures for this person to be identified and face corrected justice. This is not done much less in an Internet environment, where people post what they want, comment on what they want. We are at a time when this is no longer allowed, I do it for myself and for so many people who face this type of situation ”.

Suéllen Rosim is the first woman elected mayor of Bauru. Before her, only Estala Almagro, who was elected councilor in these elections, held the position of deputy mayor in Rodrigo Agostinho’s two terms.

“I represent many women, many black women who have sought their space on this path, not only in politics, but in all areas. That is why I want to leave this message of respect and representation. And with that, the government has already started by leaving this message in front of what I felt offended, but which will not silence me and will not make me invisible ”.

Suéllen was the most voted candidate for the Bauru Prefecture in the first round among the 12 candidates who ran. It had 57,844 votes, which represents (36.12%).

With this performance, he went to the second round in the vote dispute with the runner-up, Dr. Raúl (DEM), who obtained 53,299 votes (33.28%) in the November 15 vote.

In the second round, Suéllen was elected mayor of Bauru with 55.98% of the votes (89,725), more than 19 thousand ahead of Dr. Raúl, with 44.02% (70,558 votes). See how the city counted.

More threats against black women

Councilor Ana Lúcia Martins (PT), who was the first black woman elected to the Joinville City Council (SC), also registered an event after receiving racist attacks on social networks and even death threats. The Civil Police of the State opened an investigation for injuries and racial threats.

Ana Lúcia, 54, is among the 19 elected to the Legislature in the largest electoral college in Santa Catarina and received 3,126 votes (1.18%).

According to the councilor, even before the results of the polls were known, the attacks began, which were later exacerbated by two threats.

“Through a false profile, I received two death threats, showing that the central problem was that I was the first black woman elected in the city,” Ana said on a social network.

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