SP Condemnsa Bolsonarists for Bo in Booty to considered “left”

The administrators of the WhatsApp group “Patriotas Cafelândia” were convicted by the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ-SP) for persecution during the 2022 elections. Before the second round, Professor Davoine Francisco Colpani and dentist Edson PARRA Nani Filho released a boycott list to people who would not vote for Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The decision was issued last Wednesday (300.

According to the lawsuit, the list that circulated in a group of about 300 people included small traders, service providers and liberal professionals who were referred to as “leftist”, “damn”, and “traitors”, which should be “banned”. The case happened in Cafelândia, a municipality in the interior of São Paulo with about 19 thousand inhabitants.

The list spread and began to be replicated on other social networks and even printed leaflets. The goal would be to name voters from other candidates, the alleged “traitors”, and harm their business or jobs.

According to reports from the victims of the boycott and other witnesses mentioned in the process, the group members were encouraged not to consume products from listed voter establishments or contract their services. One of the victims was aware that his company was cited as “red”, in reference to his support for then candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“The dissemination of such a list, then, would have caused constraints and risks to the physical and psychological integrity of the victims, causing them fear and suffering, as well as their friends and family, and invading and disturbing their spheres of freedom and privacy, which, as if that were not enough, experienced financial losses due to the boycott triggered by the conduct of the accused,” says the process.

Pump explosion and threats

According to the file, one of the traders mentioned on the list, owner of a bar in Cafeilândia reported that in October 2022, a blue pickup truck approached his establishment and exploded a small bomb in his bar, “which made her fearful that something could happen to her business or family.”

Also according to the process, the financial loss due to the reduction of its clientele reached 60% after the list of the list.

Another merchant reported that he was threatened by one of the members of the Patriotas Cafelândia group. According to the victim, he received a proposal saying that he would have his name removed from the boycott’s list if he exposed in his market the Brazilian flag in support of Jair Bolsonaro. He refused the proposal and the revenue of trade fell notably and, until the moment of the process, did not return to normal.

“The victim, finally stated that he altered his routine and the way he worked, in the face of fear of what could happen, due to the political violence established.”

Other victims reported psychological consequences that they suffered due to fear and concern for their names are on the list. “The fear that nourished about physical violence came from the large number of people who participated in the group ‘Patriotas’, as well as the news conveyed by the media, including the group members, including road stoppages,” the process says.

On the other hand, the accused, Davoine and Edson denied that they were the authors of the boycott, but admitted to having released the list. Judge Luís Soares de Mello, rapporteur of the lawsuit did not accept the accused’s version for understanding that “the evidence is quite the conviction.”

Almost three years after the 2022 elections, the accused were sentenced to open -time imprisonment with conditional suspension for two years, as well as compensation for four minimum wages for each victim for moral damages. Davoine was sentenced to a year and four months and Edson for a year and five months.