Brazilian gay deputy resigned for being threatened with death | Chronic

The Brazilian deputy Jean Wyllys, a colleague of the left-wing councilor badbadinated in Rio de Janeiro last year, announced Thursday that he was resigning from his post in Congress and that he was leaving the country for fear of death threats that He has been receiving for years.

"When they executed Marielle, I had a notion of gravity." Besides these death threats emanating from groups of badbadins, militia-related hiring badbadins, there was another possibility: the attack of fanatics who believe in defamation. systematic against me "said Wyllys in an interview with Folha newspaper in Sao Paulo.

The former Socialist Party and Freedom MP (PSOL) was the first legislator to declare himself openly gay and quickly became a standard bearer of the LGTBQ community in Brazil.

When his militant partner Franco she was murdered, he is one of those who have most publicly demanded justice and who has systematically remembered the judicial and political inaction.

Franco was executed last March while he was driving in downtown Rio de Janeiro. From that moment, some of his colleagues who also received death threats, including Wyllys, began to be escorted by the police.

In this context, the legislator, aged 44, was re-elected for the third time in the general election last October.

In the interview published last Thursday, Wyllys badured that his decision was not directly attributable to the new president Jair Bolsonarobut to the increase in violence that followed his electoral victory.

"It was not his choice in itself, it was the level of violence that had increased after his election.In order to get an idea, they tore the heart of a transvestite a few days ago.", he said, quoted by the EFE news agency.

It was recently revealed that the eldest son of the president, Flavio Bolsonaro, hired family members of the murderer who killed Franco.

"It scares me to know that the president's son hired the wife and mother of the murderer committed in his office, the president who always defamed me, who always insulted me openly , who has always resorted to homophobia., he said.

In addition, Wyllys recalled the advice given by the former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica: "When he learned that he was threatened with death, he said to me," Good God, take care of yourself, the martyrs are not heroes "And that's all, I do not do not want to sacrifice myself. ".

Shortly after the announcement of the resignation of Wyllys, President Bolsonaro and another of his sons were known on social networks. Carlos, tweeted two messages that many interpreted as a celebration of the news: "Great Day" and "Go with God and be happy", respectively.