The Minister of (Superior Electoral Court) Vera Lúcia Santana says she feels humiliated and promises to go to court after reporting at an event of the federal government last Friday (16). “There was a refusal to see me as a dignified person.”
Second black woman to occupy a seat at the Electoral Court, Vera Lúcia narrates that she had her entry barred in a building where the Presidency Ethics Committee promoted a seminar on ethics in the public service. The magistrate had a programmed speech at the event.
When he arrived at the concierge at first, he claims to have performed only with the name. Two attendants who were there said she was not on the list. Vera Lúcia then stated that she was a substitute minister of the TSE and presented the functional wallet.
“None of them even took the wallet to see anything, and one of them kept saying that I should call the organization,” she recalls Sheet. “It’s a humiliation, because it’s a contempt, a destroying that leads you to a situation of personal unworthiness.”
Vera Lúcia stated that she would not need to contact the organization of the event because she had been invited. The women called a security guard, whom the magistrate also tried to present the minister functional, unsuccessfully.
Finally they sought a person from the support team of the organization that managed to get them into the event. According to the minister, no public agent was involved in the imbroglio, only outsourced people in the building.
“Nothing has happened as it should be routine in a civilized space free of prejudice. Contempt, the neglect it had. There I was as an authority. It was very systematic. None of the three people took the wallet that was all the time available.”
Union’s general lawyer, Jorge Messias, about the episode of racism against the minister, by letter sent on Wednesday (21) to PF Director-General Andrei Rodrigues.
According to a statement, Messiah asked the identification of those responsible and the adoption of appropriate legal measures.
“I reiterate the commitment of the Attorney General of the Union to the defense of fundamental rights and the confrontation of all forms of discrimination, especially the structural racism that still persists in various instances of Brazilian institutional life,” he says.
In the document, Messiah states that he intended to “compel those responsible for the administration of the building to take immediate action to hold the perpetrator responsible for the aggression and implement educational and preventive actions, so that similar situations never repeat.”
The Ethics Commission states in a statement to express solidarity with Minister Vera Lúcia for the “embarrassment to which he was subjected”, but said he did not stop any administrative or managerial responsibility on the place where the fact occurred.
The agency says that the episode took place at CNC Business Center, building of the National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism in Brasilia where AGU units and other institutions work, and that surveillance and reception services are directly hired by the condominium.
“Given the severity of the report, the Public Ethics Commission is collaborating with the Union Attorney General in the adoption of appropriate measures with the management of the building, aiming at both the clarification of the facts and the liability of those involved.”
Minister Vera Lúcia states that she felt “completely humiliated, destroyed, disregarded, broken, violated, because it is a very strong aggression.” The feeling that remains, she says, is that “everything you have walked here meant nothing.”
She says she will come up with all appropriate lawsuits in the criminal and civil scope.
“I will file everything, complain about everything I should do, because, not wanting to make these people pay for Christ, it must be given visibility to certain occurrences, they need to play a pedagogical role. This pedagogical role is liable.”
At the session last Wednesday (20), the president of the TSE, minister, made public the occurrence. At the time, she said that Messiah of AGU had promised steps to investigate what happened.
According to Cármen, the attorney general of the Union “sought the minister [Vera Lúcia] And also came to me. He sent to this court a letter saying that he sympathized not only with Minister Vera Lúcia Santana, but with this Superior Electoral Court. “
The president of the Court also took the opportunity to pass a message: “It is a crime. Etharismo is discrimination. It is unconstitutional, immoral, unfair any kind of destroying due to any criterion other than the dignity of the human person.”
In a statement, AGU said that, although the event was not promoted by the institution or occurred in the agency’s premises, it adopted appropriate measures in order to investigate the facts and assist in punishing those responsible.
“Because it is a two-story tenant in the building, AGU opened an administrative procedure and notified the company responsible for managing the property about the fact. It also requested the preservation of images and evidence that eventually confirms what happened last Friday.”
The National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism said that “vehemently repudiate any act of racism, as well as any form of discrimination.” “We reaffirm our non -negotiable commitment to the values of respect, inclusion and diversity,” he said in a statement.
She said the episode came to the entity through the press and that the security of the site is performed by an outsourced company hired by the condominium administration.
According to the company responsible for the condominium, says CNC, “entry control was being performed through a nominal list, the responsibility of the event organizers.” “Ordinance employees depended on this organization to release the entry of people who were not on the guest list.”
Contact with those responsible for release the entrance of the minister, says the entity, lasted about eight minutes. CNC said it will implement new procedures in the assignment of spaces, in which the presence of representative of the event “will be mandatory to make agile and assertive decisions in the control of access that prevent any type of embarrassment.”
Collaborated Ana Pompeu, from Brasilia
