Professor and lawyer Melina Girardi Fachin, who is the daughter of the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) Edson Fachin, was harassed on Friday (12) when she left the building of (Federal University of Paraná) in Santos Andrade Square, center of.
According to lawyer Marcos Rocha Gonçalves, Melina’s husband, she was walking in the square after leaving law school late morning when a white man, without identifying herself, approached and “struck the teacher, calling her communist waste.” The report was made by him on a social network.
“This violence is the result of the irresponsibility and villainy of all those who have aligned with the discourse of hatred, since the sewage of extreme right radicalism, which aims to eliminate everything that is distinct,” he wrote, by saying that it is not an isolated case of physical, political and against a woman.
One day before the assault on Melina, the 27 years and 3 months in prison for an attempted coup d’état on charges of leading a plot to remain in power. He was also considered guilty by four other crimes.
The sentence was given by the first class of the court, which is not integrated by Fachin. Appointed to the STF in 2015 by then President Dilma Rousseff (PT), Fachin made a career in Paraná and, at UFPR, was a professor of civil law. He will assume the presidency of the Supreme Court later this month.
Melina is director of the UFPR Legal Sciences Sector and professor of the Institution’s Department of Public Law. Another daughter of the STF Minister, the doctor who specializes in pediatric surgery and teacher, is the current deputy dean of the university.
In a statement, UFPR states that “analyzes the situation that occurred with the teacher”. He also said that the case will be debated at a University Planning and Administration Council meeting on Tuesday (16).
A note of displeasure was made by UFPR Law teachers, in solidarity Melina. “Political and ideological differences are legitimate, but they can never justify aggression or intimidation,” says excerpt.
Melina has not yet manifested publicly. In her husband’s account, he speaks of “cowardly aggression” committed by a “filthy pig” and binds the case to a law school.
On the night of that day, a demonstration of students against a lecture at the Noble Hall of the Law School ended with tear gas and rubber bullets fired by the Paraná Military Police.
The event would have the participation of Councilman Guilherme Kilter (Novo) and Jeffrey Chiquini, lawyer of Filipe Martins, advisor to international matters of the Presidency of the Republic in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government and defendant in the Supreme Court in the case of the coup plot. In a publication on social networks, both said they were beaten and insulted upon arriving at the university.
According to the organizers, the goal was to discuss “the supreme abuse”, but the event was canceled by the university, which warned of the possibility of confusion.
UFPR states that the speakers did not accept cancellation and tried to force their entry on the site “pushing the deputy director of the sector, which triggered a series of reactions that culminated in a disproportionate response from the public security forces in relation to the manifest community.”
On the social network, Gonçalves stated that the act of violence against Melina “carries the signatures of all those who last Tuesday [09/09] They starred in another episode of provocation, of turmoil and disrespect to institutions, as is the practice of these subjects subject. “
Gonçalves also writes that “there will be no mercy to the pockets, intolerant and especially cowards.” “You have never measured the consequences of your words and your actions. We will no longer measure,” he continued.
Human rights and women’s defense committees of the Paraná OAB have repudiated aggression and, in a statement, said that Melina has “a noishes to defend democracy, human rights and gender equality.”
“The female presence in a position of power and involvement with the protection of expensive guidelines to socially vulnerable groups are determining aspects for the occurrence of violence of this nature, which multiplies the need for attention of institutions,” says Excerpt.
