Residents of Búzios (RJ) and region should gather in a demonstration this Friday (7), at 4 pm, in front of the headquarters of the local club Sociedade Esportiva Búzios. Feminist groups and in favor of women want to protest the hiring of goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes, convicted of the death of Eliza Samudio.
The team announced that Bruno would arrive on loan and that he would wear the team’s colors in Série B2, the equivalent of the fourth division of the Carioca Championship. However, the F5 found that there is a lot of rejection in the municipality. The atmosphere in the city is one of consternation and revolt because of his arrival.
Another factor that scares residents a lot is that children love football and end up having players as idols. Local mothers fear that young people will start to look up to Bruno without having the scale of the crime he committed in 2010. Having a man convicted of murder roaming and working freely around the city represents an affront according to some locals.
A petition for the athlete to be excluded from the team also began to circulate this Thursday morning (6) through the region and will be delivered to the City Hall.
In this Friday’s demonstration, the groups will ask for more public policies to combat machismo and violence, in addition to the immediate expulsion of the team’s goalkeeper, who “represents negligence and disrespect for the lives of all of us”.
The city had at least five cases of femicide in 2022 and the same movements that now repudiate Bruno’s arrival had already taken to the streets to protest. Among them is the case of Pâmela Santos, a 26-year-old whose body was found in Lagoa da Ferradura after an eight-day search. One man, a former partner, was arrested.
In addition, Búzios is the scene of one of the most famous cases of femicide in the country’s history, the crime in Praia dos Ossos, in which former playboy Raul Fernando Doca Street killed Minas Gerais socialite Ângela Diniz, in 1976, with four shots in the face.
wanted by F5, the president of Sociedade Esportiva Búzios, Renato Matos, did not respond. But earlier, on the day of the official announcement, he had said that there was rejection of the goalkeeper in the city, “but people supporting it too”.
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