The PSol said, this Monday afternoon (23), that it will file a complaint against Senator Magno Malta (PL-ES) in the Senate Ethics Council and also file a crime report with the Federal Supreme Court (STF). . The reason is a speech by Malta during a meeting of the Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) of the House regarding the racist attacks suffered by Real Madrid player, Vinicius Júnior, last Sunday. The episode of racism occurred during a match for the Spanish championship. Speaks at CAE At the meeting, the senator made a counterpoint to the manifestations of support for the player and questioned the absence of defenders of the monkeys, to whom the Brazilian striker was compared by the fans of the opposing team, Valencia. “You can only kill something with something’s own venom, okay? So, here’s the thing: where are the defenders of the animal cause who don’t defend the monkey? The monkey is exposed. See how much hypocrisy! And the monkey is smart, it’s very close to the man – the only difference is the tail. He is agile, brave, cheerful; everything you can imagine it has,” said the senator. He added that, in Vini Jr’s place, he would enter the field “with a white piglet in his arms” and kiss the animal to prove that he has nothing against whites. He then stated that Vinicius Júnior is being “revictimized”. It is not the first time that the athlete has suffered racist attacks in Spain. Malta concluded by classifying as “a barbarity” what they did against the player and relativized the racial component of the offenses. “What they did to him, we take everything for the color of his skin, but there’s a lot involved there: he’s jealous, he wanted to be him and he wasn’t, he wanted to dribble like him and he never managed to; it’s a father who wanted to see his children play, he put them in the soccer school, but nothing came of it, zero… Then there’s envy”. Representation Through social networks, the party confirmed its intention to represent against the senator. The leader of the party in the House, Guilherme Boulos (SP), criticized the tone of the senator’s speech. “It is a shame that such a guy represents the Brazilian people. A sample of the level of Bolsonarist opposition that PSOL faces every day in Congress”. Another side Already in the plenary session of the Senate, hours later, Malta defended itself against the accusations. “They’re putting their own spin on an analogy I made. We held a moment of solidarity with Vinícius Junior”. He then recalled and emphasized an excerpt from his speech at the CAE meeting, when he said that “when two hands meet and two bodies come together, a shadow of the same color reflects on the floor”. And he ended by saying: “racism is harmful, it is criminal. This is my position”.
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