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Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (PSOL-MG) was the subject of a violent action by the National Congress Police (DPOL) and the Federal District Military Police (PMDF) during the Terra Livre camp (ATL), held on Wednesday (10) at the lawn of the National Congress in Brasilia.
Deputy Célia Xakriabá was beaten with pepper spray and bombs during indigenous march in Brasilia/Photo: Reproduction
In a report on social networks, the parliamentarian said she was beaten with pepper spray and moral bombs, even after identifying herself as a deputy. “I was prevented from leaving the place, embarrassed, assaulted and needed medical attention in the House of Representatives,” he wrote.
Celia also denounced what she classified as institutional racism and gender political violence. “This episode has widened what we have been denounced for a long time: the state violence against the original peoples and the institutional racism that marks the power structures of power. It is also gender political violence, in a country where being an indigenous woman in parliament is to resist daily deletion.”
Police repression against indigenous people was widely criticized on social networks. The deputy’s post received a wave of support from indignant users with the police action. Many recalled the absence of security forces during the scammers of January 8, 2023 and questioned the selectivity of police action.
Celia finished her publication with a firm position: “We will not retreat. Let’s not be silent in the face of truculence. Our voice echoes for hundreds of peoples and territories, and will not be silenced by bombs or authoritarianism.”
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