The signed a TAC (Term of Adjustment of Conduct) with the former secretary of Celso Furlan to file a request to open a civil investigation because of .
In return, the former secretary will have to pay compensation of R$50,000 to repair the collective moral damage, as established by prosecutor Marcos Mendes Lyra. “It is also appropriate to publicly acknowledge the error to be made on social media by the then Secretary, as a way of publicly apologizing,” he wrote.
after an audio circulated on social media in which he insinuated that PCDs overload the city’s security system. “Be careful not to give places to people with disabilities, because you no longer tolerate them at school”, quotes the text reproduced by the Public Ministry.
“One student with an autism problem means 20 normal students. This is always the case. To think about it. Not that I want to rule it out, but we have a house for autistic people, which is located at the disabled person’s desk. But the mothers are not worried about that”, he continues, in another excerpt.
“They want to get rid of the child where we take care of them. It’s not right. You just need to advise mothers who have a case of a disabled person in a wheelchair. A wheelchair user who doesn’t move any member of his body, nothing, all crooked, crooked, completely inefficient, isn’t in a wheelchair condition, isn’t in a position to learn anything. The mother takes it. Do you know why? To be free for four, five hours of the child. And we’re the ones who have to take care of it. (…).”
The request to open an investigation was presented to the Public Ministry in May by state deputies.
“I was happy with this solution from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of a fine plus an apology and I hope that this is pedagogical not only for the former secretary, so that he changes his behavior and does not make this mistake again, but also for other municipal managers who, unfortunately, still do not seem to have the will to comply with the law in terms of inclusion”, said state deputy Andréa Werner (PSB), president of the House Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The parliamentarian is autistic and the mother of an autistic teenager.
Before being fired, Furlan published a note on social media in which he stated that the speech was taken out of context. “This is an excerpt. The subject was the subject of a work meeting, where the creation of school environments with more learning opportunities and infrastructure for students with disabilities was discussed. The study is ongoing. Barueri is a reference in inclusive education”, it says in the publication.
He states that the objective was not to disrespect or cause any type of embarrassment and to believe “firmly in valuing human diversity and respecting the dignity of each individual, regardless of their characteristics.”
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