AGU asks Brazilian sports entities to ban Wallace from volleyball

Volleyball player Wallace Leandro’s publication asking his followers which of them would shoot President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) could mean the 35-year-old athlete’s banishment from the sport. At least, that’s what the Attorney General’s Office requested from the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) and the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation (CBV), in addition to paying the penalty of R$100,000, the maximum amount.

The complaint is based on “violation of article 243-D (public incitement to hatred or violence) of the Brazilian Code of Sports Justice, and articles 8 and 34 of the Code of Ethical Conduct of the COB, respectively the undue use of discriminatory expressions and incitement practices of acts of violence through social networks”, according to the official note from the AGU. In addition, the agency considers that “Wallace’s conduct constitutes the crime of incitement to crime (art. 286 of the Brazilian Penal Code), and that the manifestation of hatred carried out by the player on his social network is not protected by the right to freedom of expression. expression, ‘because no one is authorized to commit a crime invoking this fundamental freedom’.”

The two entities manifested themselves after the publication, repudiating the player’s actions. The COB stated that it would file a lawsuit with the Ethics Council, while the CBV has yet to decide whether to file a complaint with the Superior Court of Sports Justice (STJD). Wallace’s club, Sada Cruzeiro, also condemned the message and removed the player indefinitely.

The Minister of Sports, Ana Moser, also spoke about the case. Through social networks, she stated that “before an athlete, the player Wallace is a Brazilian citizen and must respond to our laws and institutions”.