Minister Herman Benjamin, from the STJ (Superior Court of Justice), rejected this Wednesday (17) an appeal from Paraná that attempted to resume the process of impeachment of the state deputy ().
The parliamentarian became the target of a process of breach of parliamentary decorum instituted by his peers in the Legislature after he was involved in a street fight in November 2025, in the center of .
Benjamin’s decision has not yet been published, but the report found that the minister did not receive the appeal as he considered the matter to be within the jurisdiction of the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
The Legislative Assembly said that it was notified this Thursday morning (18) and that the House Attorney’s Office “analyzes the order to take the appropriate appeal measure”.
The PT member’s request for impeachment would initially be analyzed by deputies this Tuesday (16). But, three days earlier, judge Rogério Kanayama, from the Paraná Court of Justice, suspended the vote, accepting the request from the PT’s defense.
To the STJ, the Assembly maintained that maintaining the injunction represented “undue interference in the autonomy of the Legislative Branch and compromises the regular exercise of its constitutional powers, especially in internal disciplinary matters”.
The trial of the case mobilizes sectors of the left, which have organized protests over the last few weeks. Freitas classifies the process in the Legislature as a result of coronelism and authoritarianism. “This does not match democracy. The colonels in power cannot revoke the popular vote, they cannot criminalize our mandate, they cannot silence our voice,” said the deputy on social media.
He also highlighted that the Legislative Assembly of Paraná has never impeached a deputy in its 171-year history: “They lived with murderers, thieves and corrupt people, but they never tried them, not even when the courts presented the evidence. Always blind, deaf and mute in the face of the deputies’ crimes.”
The request for revocation was approved on May 11 by the Assembly’s Ethics Council, which accepted the opinion presented by the case’s rapporteur, deputy Márcio Pacheco (Republicans). On June 2, the Constitution and Justice Commission confirmed the opinion.
The fight that gave rise to the impeachment process took place in November 2025. The first videos that circulated on social media at the time, taken on a cell phone, showed the deputy and valet Weslley de Souza Silva exchanging kicks and punches on streets in the center of . Later, other videos from security cameras came to light.
The confusion began when the deputy tried to cross the street with his companion and was surprised by the proximity of a car that occupied part of the sidewalk to maneuver and enter the garage of a building. There, the deputy said that he just looked indignantly at the driver, who, in turn, would have lowered the window to hurl insults.
The valet, identified as Weslley de Souza Silva, denies that he swore at Freitas. He said that, after Freitas and his companion crossed the street, he soon parked the car he was maneuvering and went to the sidewalk. Afterwards, he saw Freitas and another man (a friend and advisor to the deputy) running towards him to attack him.
Security camera footage shows the moment the valet is pushed by the pair into the garage. Afterwards, it is possible to see the advisor punching and kicking Weslley. All the action is quick and Freitas and the advisor leave the place.
Later, the confusion gained a new chapter. Weslley followed the deputy and, still on the streets of the city’s central region, the three met again. Cell phone images that circulated on social media showed Freitas walking while asking the boy to move away, pushing him to the side. Seconds later, Weslley slaps the deputy in the face.
From there, Freitas reacts and goes towards the boy. He kicks Weslley twice in the leg, who then punches the deputy in the face. The parliamentarian falls to the ground, gets up and the two continue face to face, exchanging threats as they advance through the streets.
Freitas said he broke his nose and needed medical attention. In relation to the beginning of the confusion, the deputy said in a press interview that the valet had parked and got out of the car with “aggressive momentum” and that his advisor “intervened to neutralize the threat”.
One of the main members of the left in Paraná, and pre-candidate for federal deputy, Freitas has already been the target of other representations filed by his peers in the Legislature.
In August 2025, he left the Legislative Assembly for 30 days, because the Ethics Council understood that the PT member collaborated with the invasion of protesters into the House in June 2024. At the time, Freitas alleged persecution and said that the punishment represented a censure of his mandate.
Renato Freitas while he was a councilor in Curitiba. His peers in the Chamber accused him of breaking parliamentary decorum because of a demonstration that advanced into the Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos de São Benedito Church, in Curitiba, in February 2022.
The group, which had Freitas among its leaders, was protesting against the murders in Rio de Janeiro of Congolese Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe and Durval Teófilo Filho, two black men, aged 24 and 38.
